What You Should Know: - Particle Health announces the launch of its Beta Program that will enable consumer applications such as PHRs and other providers instant access to patient records stored across health exchanges - using its single API. - The Beta Program is aimed at helping developers deliver next-gen healthcare solutions that have now been enabled with the recent passing of the Anti-Information Blocking Rule in the CURES Act. - Now the Anti-Information Blocking Rule is in
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Vericred Nabs $23M for API Platform Exchange for Health Insurance & Employee Benefits
What You Should Know: - Vericred, the data services platform powering digital quote-to-card experiences in health insurance and benefits, announced $23M in Series B funding led by Aquiline Technology Growth with participation from new investors Echo Health Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Guardian Strategic Ventures, and existing investors Riverside Acceleration Capital, FCA Venture Partners and First Health Capital Partners. - The company plans to use the new capital to expand its teams in
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Health Gorilla Nabs $15M to Expand FHIR-based APIs for Digital Health
What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla raises $15M to scale its FHIR-based API solutions for digital health and expand into new markets. - Health Gorilla will introduce new APIs to enable consumer access to medical records, payer-to-payer data sharing, and data quality assessments. Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of healthcare APIs, today announced it has raised $15 million in Series B financing co-led by IA Capital and Nationwide, with participation
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DrChrono’s Open FHIR API Enables Patients to Transfer Records to Apple Health
What You Should Know: - DrChrono announces today that its open FHIR API is now live enabling its patient members to securely transfer their available health records out of DrChrono into the Apple Health app on the iPhone so their medical information is consolidated and always with them. - The Health Records feature is part of the Health app, which also shows activity, heart rate, nutrition and other health data consolidated from iPhone, Apple Watch and HealthKit-enabled third-party
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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2020 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
What You Should Know: - Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the eleventh consecutive year in the Best in KLAS 2021 Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2020. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Galen Healthcare Solutions was named the top Overall IT Services Firm. The Chartis Group earned the award of top Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm, edging out last year’s winner,
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NexHealth Acquires Paperless Digital Forms Company Enlive
What You Should Know: - NexHealth acquires integrated paperless forms company Enlive to expand its patient experience platform, making patient data collection easy and secure. - Paperless forms solve long-standing difficulties that healthcare practices have faced with paper-based forms, including data entry, filing, shredding, and scanning patient paperwork. Enlive offers HIPAA-compliant online forms that seamlessly integrate with EHR systems such as Dentrix, Eaglesoft, and Practice
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CHIME-KLAS Report Reveals 10 Key EMR Interoperability Trends
What You Should Know: - New CHIME-KLAS interoperability report reveals steady
progress in some areas related to interoperability and leaps forward in others. - A total of 67% of provider organizations reported they
often or nearly always had access to needed records in 2020, up from 28% in
2017. Providers noted improvements in functionality and usability for tasks
like locating and viewing records. Both providers and the companies that produce the hardware and software needed
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Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems
Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with
new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches
follow the typical RESTful API approach that has become the standard method for
data exchange. Yet Health Level Seven (HL7), with its new Fast Healthcare Interoperability
Resources (FHIR) standard for the electronic transfer of health data, is
leading to a rash of implementations that, to date, are not solving core interoperability
issues. Data is still
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Withings, Redox Partner to Make Remote Patient Monitoring Devices Integrated With All EHRs
What You Should Know: - Withings partners with healthcare IT integration
company Redox, which will make its remote patient monitoring solution, Withings
MED·PRO CARE, compatible with nearly all EHRs used by physicians, hospitals,
and medical institutions. - Through the partnership, physicians can now order and
ship Withings clinically-validated connected health devices directly to their
patients through their EHR. - As patients use their Withings devices, which are
designed to be
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CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity
Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last year or so, as hackers are increasingly targeting health information. Now, with a global pandemic forcing a shift to telemedicine and remote work, and new rules from the ONC and CMS introducing more regulatory burden, healthcare CIOs have more to manage than ever. Fortunately, it is possible to roll out new capabilities while simultaneously improving cybersecurity by following these three rules: Rule 1: Think Like an
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