The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has laid the critical groundwork to create a connected healthcare system in which patients, providers, and payers can easily exchange information. This is thanks in part to the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule. With new policies now in place, CMS aims to generate better health outcomes through improved interoperability and better access to health information for all stakeholders.
CMS has also identified a new
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Implicity Launches SMART on FHIR App to Optimize Interoperability & Workflow Efficiencies
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- Implicity, a leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and cardiac data management solutions, released a new SMART on FHIR application to improve interoperability and workflow efficiencies for providers.
- The new app improves cardiac remote monitoring workflows by providing clinicians access to Implicity alerts and reports directly within Epic's EHR system.
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Implicity's cloud-based platform allows cardiac teams to streamline workflows by
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Targeted IT Solutions Ease Navigation and Shift to Value-Based Care
The new healthcare realm of value-based care (VBC), designed to reward healthcare providers with incentive payments for the quality of care and patient outcomes not simply the volume of services provided, presents both opportunities and challenges for all stakeholders. This fundamental shift in reimbursement is intended to become part of the larger quality strategy in reforming how healthcare is delivered and compensated: better care for individuals, better health for populations
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Epic, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Chartis Named 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® Awards
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Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report, released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments.
- Impact Advisors tied with Nordic to be a
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Why It’s Time for Intelligent Prior Authorization
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a new rule to advance interoperability and improve the prior authorization (PA) process for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Specifically, the rule stipulates that health plans adopt electronic prior authorization processes, adhere to shorter turnaround times, clearly communicate denial reasons, publish key metrics annually, and implement the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Application Programming Interface
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FHIR Adoption and Implementation Challenges
The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was introduced by HL7 in 2014 as a significant replacement for the HL7 V2 and V3 standards. An open standard called FHIR, which was initially drafted in 2011 makes it easier than ever for legacy systems and new apps to exchange data. FHIR was created to not only increase communication efficiency and interoperability compared to earlier standards but also to facilitate implementation by giving clear specifications and allowing
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Edifecs and VirtualHealth Partner to Automate Prior Authorization
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- Today, Edifecs and VirtualHealth, a medical management company, announced a new partnership automated prior authorization to VirtualHealth’s HELIOS® platform for healthcare payer and provider clients.
- The Edifecs solution will automate and optimize the prior authorization process across HELIOS to significantly reduce the administrative burden, alleviate friction between payers and providers, and ultimately expedite patient care.
Growing Need for Automated Prior
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Smile Digital Health Closes $30M to Expand Health Data Fabric Platform
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- Smile CDR Inc. (doing business as Smile Digital Health) ("Smile"), a FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider raises $30M in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises.
- Founded in 2016, Smile's HDF platform uses industry-leading HDF architecture and ONC-compliant, event-driven FHIR APIs to allow healthcare providers, payers and IT vendors to build secure,
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Health Gorilla Launches Pharmacy Data, Powered by DrFirst
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- Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network (HIN) and leading interoperability platform launches Pharmacy Data, a new product enabling seamless access to complete medication history data from most major pharmacies.
- Pharmacy Data is powered by a new partnership with DrFirst and its MedHx Population Risk Management (PRM) solution to provide deduplicated medication history from local and national data sources, including prescribing data, pharmacy
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80% of Healthcare Execs Want Complete Clinical Data From Other EHRs
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- Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network and interoperability provider, released it's inaugural 2023 State of Interoperability report today to understand how healthcare decision-makers are approaching their clinical data strategies in light of patient privacy concerns and new federal regulations.
- The study, conducted in collaboration with Flexpa and the Health Management Academy, found that 60% of health systems report duplicative or incomplete data retrieved
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