One of the most daunting quandaries in healthcare is managing the abundance of data that are generated every day. The challenge isn’t just the vast volume of information, but the fact that most data are unstructured. Unstructured data require a considerable amount of manual intervention to read the contents and determine where the information needs to be integrated for the most efficient action.
These data challenges multiply as organizations struggle to compile information across various
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Redox and Kno2 Form Strategic Alliance to Solve Healthcare’s Interoperability and Data Usability Challenge
What You Should Know:
- Redox, a healthcare interoperability company, and Kno2, a company specializing in healthcare communication announced a strategic alliance aimed at solving the dual challenge of moving clinical data at scale and making that data instantly usable across the healthcare ecosystem.
- The combined network forms the largest and most comprehensive healthcare network of provider systems, EHRs, and HIT vendors in the United States. Together, Redox and Kno2 transact over 40
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CARIN Alliance Launches Nation’s First Unified Digital Identity Credential Policy
What You Should Know:
- The CARIN Alliance, in partnership with DirectTrust® and Kantara Initiative™, has announced the publication of the nation’s first unified digital identity credential trust framework policy.
- The landmark policy establishes a foundation for digital identity credentials to be consistently recognized and exchanged across systems and organizations.
Harmonizing Major Trust Frameworks
The CARIN Digital Identity Credential Policy integrates and harmonizes
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Epic Outlines Roadmap for Next-Generation Data Sharing at Open@Epic
What You Should Know:
- Nearly 1,000 experts gathered at the developer-focused Open@Epic conference to discuss the future of healthcare data sharing.
- During the event, Epic outlined its plans for expanding interoperability, simplifying patient-driven data connections, and enhancing support for app developers. In the past year alone, over 745 billion data exchanges took place using Epic’s publicly available APIs.
Easier Patient-Driven Data Connections
Epic's new
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MEDITECH Adds New Workflow Enhancements to Interoperability Network
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH has announced new workflow advancements to its Traverse Exchange interoperability solution, which are already live at 112 health systems.
- These enhancements feature a consolidated patient summary that improves clinician efficiency by providing a streamlined view of patient data from multiple sources within the native EHR workflow. The system intelligently filters out redundant information, organizing key data in a searchable format to enable
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Healthcare’s Unstructured Data Problem: The Case for Modernization
Like most other sectors operating in the digital economy, healthcare has become hugely reliant on unstructured data. It’s widely acknowledged that this data type, which doesn’t follow a predefined format and resides outside traditional databases, now comprises 80-90% of all organizational data.
In healthcare settings, this can encompass a wide range of items, including medical imaging, scans, emails, claims documents, and device outputs, among many other possibilities. This information is
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Medical Imaging Ecosystems: A New Model for AI Adoption and Interoperability
The medical imaging industry is increasingly embracing a simple truth: there is strength in numbers. This is evident in the growing adoption of partnership ecosystems. This collaborative model brings technology companies and service providers together to deliver seamless solutions across the full continuum of care, from initial imaging to diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up support.
This model is gaining traction largely due to the flexibility it affords hospitals and health systems in
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HHS Regulatory Breakthrough to Streamline Prior Authorizations and Improve Drug Price Transparency
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a new regulatory reform that will give doctors and patients real-time access to prescription drug information.
- The rule, which takes effect on October 1, will allow millions of Americans for the first time to compare drug prices, view out-of-pocket costs, and access prior authorization requirements. The reform aims to help them identify the most cost-effective treatments and prevent
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The Real Healthcare Emergency: Why Interoperability is the Unsolved Foundation of Digital Health
Clinical information isn’t moving where it needs to go.
Despite decades of investment in health IT, the industry is still grappling with basic data exchange. As recently as 2023, 47.4% of small hospitals and 42.8% of rural hospitals still relied on mail or fax as their primary method of exchanging patient information. Even among medium and large hospitals, nearly one third still rely on these methods.
These manual processes take more time, introduce more risk, and delay care—yet they
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How CIOs Can Close The Interoperability Divide in Hospitals
Patients may be seen by various doctors and clinicians during treatment, such as a primary care physician who diagnoses diabetes and monitors overall health, an endocrinologist who adjusts medications and monitors blood sugar, and a dietitian who assists with nutrition. If these professionals can’t work together and share information, it creates a disconnect that impacts the quality of care delivery.
Interoperability is the missing piece to ensuring teams understand patients and their
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