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Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems

by Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree 01/12/2021 Leave a Comment

Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare's Biggest Interoperability Problems

Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree 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
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Xealth’s CEO Shares Impact of Digital Health in 2020 and What’s Ahead in 2021

by Fred Pennic 01/07/2021 Leave a Comment

Xealth’s CEO Shares Impact of Digital Health in 2020 and What’s Ahead in 2021

Mike McSherry, CEO & Co-founder of Xealth HIT Consultant sat down with Mike McSherry, CEO, and co-founder of Seattle-based digital prescription platform Xealth to discuss digital health lessons learned in 2020 and what we can expect in 2021. As Xealth’s CEO, Mike also works with Duke Health, UPMC, Atrium Health, and The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network where he uses his background in digital health to connect patients and care teams outside of traditional
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For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications

by Catherine Thomas, VP of Customer Experience & Dr. Peter S. Tippett, Founder and CEO of careMESH 12/22/2020 Leave a Comment

For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications

Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH  Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Readmission penalties.  Of the 3,080 hospitals CMS evaluated, 83% received a penalty for payments to be made in 2021, based on expected outcomes for a wide variety of treated conditions. While CMS indicated that some of these penalties might be waived or
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Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model

by Fred Pennic 12/18/2020 Leave a Comment

Highmark Health Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model

What You Should Know: - Highmark Health signs six-year strategic partnership agreement with Google Cloud to transform the health experience for patients and caregivers through the development of Highmark Health's new Living Health Model - The Living Health model is designed to eliminate the fragmentation in health care by re-engineering the healthcare delivery model with a more coordinated, personalized, technology-enabled experience. Highmark Health and Google Cloud today
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Medical Device Design: 4 Ways Designers Can Create Medical Devices That Work for Everyone

by Stuart Karten, Founder/President, Karten Design 12/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Karten Design: Design Must Play a Larger Role in Healthcare

Stuart Karten, Founder/President, Karten Design Medical device design has been going through sweeping changes over the last decade.  Ten years ago, medical device companies weren't concerned with delivering consumer-level design: Devices that are both attractive and intuitively easy to use by a wide variety of users.  Then the Affordable Care Act was passed, and adherence and healthy behavior change became a regulatory requirement.   Our firm, which has been a
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Google Health Studies App Launches in Partnership with Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital

by Fred Pennic 12/09/2020 Leave a Comment

Google Health Studies App Launches in Partnership with Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital

What You Should Know: - Google announces the launch of its Google Health Studies App with the first study focused on respiratory illness in partnership with Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital. - Google Health Studies aims to create opportunities for more people to participate in health research. By contributing, you’ll represent your community and start improving the future of health for everyone. To make it easier for leading research institutions to connect
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CommonHealth App Connects to 230 Health Systems to Share Health Data – including COVID Test and Vaccine Status

by Fred Pennic 12/04/2020 Leave a Comment

CommonHealth, a Free Mobile App for Patients to Share Health Data - including COVID Test and Vaccine Status - Connects to 230 US Health Systems

What You Should Know: - CommonHealth has connected to 230 health systems in the United States, allowing patients to gather, manage and share their health and test data, including COVID test and vaccination status. By the end of this month, CommonHealth will connect to more than 340 health systems - CommonHealth extends the health data portability and interoperability model pioneered by Apple Health to the 55 percent of Americans with Android devices (85 percent globally) The
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MEDITECH Launches New Subscription-Based Cloud Platform Built on Google Cloud

by Fred Pennic 12/03/2020 Leave a Comment

MEDITECH Launches New Subscription-Based Cloud Platform Built on Google Cloud

What You Should Know: - Today, MEDITECH announced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a suite of solutions available to healthcare organizations of all sizes that further extend the possibilities of the Expanse EHR. - This offering includes: Expanse NOW, High Availability SnapShot, and Virtual Care solutions, all created to work naturally in the cloud, and available through a subscription model. Today MEDITECH introduced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a suite of solutions available to
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AHRQ and Google Pilot New Tool to Help Patients Plan for Medical Visits

by Fred Pennic 12/02/2020 Leave a Comment

AHRQ and Google Pilot New Tool to Help Patients Plan for Medical Visits

What You Should Know: - Built-in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Google is piloting a new tool to help patients plan for medical visits. - The new Google visit planning tool makes it easy for patients and those who care for them to privately list and prioritize their questions in preparation for a medical visit. - The suggested questions, developed by AHRQ as part of its “Questions are the Answer” initiative, is designed to get people thinking
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Virtual Engagement During COVID Pushes Paradigm Shift for Physician Training and Patient Care

by Shalini Shah, MD is Vice-Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, UC Irvine Health 12/02/2020 Leave a Comment

Virtual engagement during COVID pushes paradigm shift for physician training and patient care

Shalini Shah, MD is Vice-Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care, and Enterprise Director of Pain Services, UC Irvine Health The dominant presence of COVID-19 has not meant the absence of cancer, ear infections, heart attacks, chronic pain, or other illnesses that need attention and care. Physicians have continued treatment for all types of maladies, and physician training has continued as well. But this treatment and this training look much
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