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The COVID-19 Data Challenges Facing Payers

by Dr. Chris Hobson, Chief Medical Officer, Orion Health 09/24/2020 Leave a Comment

The COVID-19 Data Challenges Facing Payers

Both payers and providers can benefit from the same or similar high-quality data and can work together to provide the best possible services to patients with COVID-19 while avoiding overloading the healthcare system. The key is to use combined payer, clinical, and social data plus technology such as telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI). Payer Perspective on COVID-19 The overriding concern for payers during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to support member health.  During an
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Why International Expansion Must Remain a Priority for Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, MEDITECH

by Arun Gill, Senior Analyst at Signify Research 08/24/2020 Leave a Comment

Why International Expansion Must Remain a Priority for Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, MEDITECH

What You Should Know: - How the top US acute EHR vendors, namely Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, and MEDITECH (+85% share of US acute market in terms of revenues), have progressed on international expansion. As highlighted below, there is a significant variance amongst the big four in terms of revenue and share of business outside the US. Cerner has by far the highest revenue at more than $650M in 2019, representing 12% of its business. Whilst MEDITECH has considerably lower revenue than
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HHS Announces Investments for STAR HIE Program to Support State and Local Public Health Agencies

by Fred Pennic 08/12/2020 Leave a Comment

HHS Launches EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge_HHS Funded Health Care Innovation Award Projects to Watch

What You Should Know: - HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will award up to five 5 cooperative agreements under the Strengthening the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange (STAR HIE) Program. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to expand and accelerate innovative
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Top 3 Priority Areas for Healthcare CIOs in the Age of COVID-19

by Fred Pennic 07/17/2020 Leave a Comment

Top 3 Priority Areas for Healthcare CIOs in the Age of COVID-19

What You Should Know: - In the age of COVID-19, healthcare CIOs cite interoperability, cybersecurity, and operationalizing SDOH data priorities as top three priority areas, according to the third annual LexisNexis focus group of CHIME executives. - The survey results also highlighted the importance of a team approach with support across the organization in helping CIOs achieve the vision of connected healthcare.  The Health Care business of LexisNexis® Risk
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Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds

by Fred Pennic 06/15/2020 Leave a Comment

Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds

What You Should Know: - A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate forms for notifiable disease reports increases reporting and completeness of information. - The system extracts data from the Indiana Health Information Exchange and fills in the information fields on the official state reporting form. - The form is delivered to an ambulatory care clinic using the HIE network, acting as a
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Carequality Releases Implementation Guide for Electronic Case Reporting

by Jasmine Pennic 06/15/2020 Leave a Comment

Carequality Releases Implementation Guide for Electronic Case Reporting

What You Should Know: - Carequality releases an implementation guide for electronic case reporting that enables automated, electronic case reporting to public health agencies, including the CDC. - Carequality worked closely with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in developing the new implementation guide. - This is Carequality’s second implementation guide, the first being the Query-Based Document Exchange Implementation Guide, which was originally adopted in 2015
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Nebraska Health Information Initiative Rolls Out Statewide COVID-19 Dashboard

by Jasmine Pennic 05/05/2020 Leave a Comment

Nebraska Health Information Initiative Rolls Out Statewide COVID-19 Data Collection and Reporting

What You Should Know: - NEHII, the statewide health information exchange for Nebraska, in conjunction with Intersystems, KPI Ninja, and Nextgate, has generated a COVID-19 dashboard to support statewide COVID-19 data collection and reporting. - COVID-19 dashboard provides real-time laboratory data and hospital bed management for accurate monitoring and case reporting. To help the state of Nebraska accurately track COVID-19 cases and test results, the Nebraska Health Information
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VA, DoD Launches Joint Health Information Exchange to Securely Exchange Records

by Jasmine Pennic 04/21/2020 Leave a Comment

1Vision and AMC Health Lands VA Contract to Provide Telehealth Solutions to Veterans

What You Should Know: - VA and DoD launch joint health information exchange (HIE), allowing bidirectional sharing of health records with community healthcare partners. - The benefits of the new joint HIE capability are currently available to all VA and DOD care providers and to all participating community partners. - The joint HIE capability honors patient consent so that health records of patients who opt out of sharing will not be exchanged through the HIE.  On April 18, the
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Maryland’s Doctors Urge State to Adopt Telehealth to Prevent Spread of Coronavirus

by Fred Pennic 03/12/2020 Leave a Comment

Rimidi Launches EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure to Patients & Staff

What You Need to Know:   - The Maryland State Medical Society (MedChi), which represents 22,000 doctors, today urged the state of Maryland to help protect healthcare workers and others from the novel coronavirus by keeping sick people AWAY from doctors’ offices and instead assess and treat patients through virtual visits. - MedChi has provided doctors with telehealth capabilities enabled by DrFirst’s Backline care collaboration tool. Backline enables physicians to conduct
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Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?

by Seth Joseph, Managing Director at Summit Health 02/26/2020 Leave a Comment

Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push.  One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as the foundation -- i.e., the platform enabling application development and user access.  But when it comes developing an EHR-based marketplace for
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