What You Should Know: - In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital transformation of healthcare accelerated in 2020 with increased adoption of interoperable tools to support innovations in care management, price transparency and specialty medications, according to the Surescripts 2020 National Progress Report. - The data, which represents 98% of the U.S. population, reveals how the digital transformation of healthcare was expedited over the
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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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6 HIEs Form New Consortium to Drive Population Health Improvements Via Data Sharing Interoperability
What You Should Know: - A group of six health information exchanges (HIE) announced today their formation of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI). - The 501(c)(3) CRSI aims to help drive individual and population health improvements across the nation through robust and innovative sharing of health information. - Collective, CRSI connects over 80 million records for patients across several states and provide a wide range of services to healthcare
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Adventist Health to Connect 21 Hospitals to California Health Data Network
What You Should Know: -Adventist Health’s faith-based, nonprofit integrated health system announce it will be connecting 21 hospitals from Fort Bragg to Los Angeles and approximately 7 million patients to the California’s Manifest MedEx health information network. - Joining Manifest MedEx will give Adventist Health access to powerful data and tools to serve patients, including longitudinal health records, real-time notifications on patient hospitalizations and lab results, and data
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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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Onyx, AMA Innovations Form Collaboration to Build FHIR-Based Messaging
What You Should Know: - Onyx and AMA Innovations partner to rethink ways FHIR-based messaging technology can improve links between healthcare and community-based organizations. - As part of the collaboration, both organizations will jointly
target grant opportunities through HHS’ Administration for Community Living’s
Social Care Referrals Challenge Program. Onyx Technology LLC and AMA Innovations Inc., a technology development subsidiary of the American Medical Association, today
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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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How to Capitalize on Digital Health Momentum in 2021
As we re-examine the healthcare system in the wake of the pandemic, we are continually identifying opportunities to rebuild parts of the system to new and improved specifications. One critical facet is digital health, where we continue to struggle with what should really be table stakes: the ability to integrate data from disparate organizations and systems into a unified view of the whole person and take action. During the height of the pandemic, telehealth made it possible to deliver care
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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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5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers
As if 2020 couldn’t be any more challenging for healthcare providers, new federal rules on interoperability and patient access, granting patients direct access to their healthcare data, begin taking effect in 2021 and will continue into 2022. These rules, while ultimately beneficial to patients, bring an additional level of operational complexity to many revenue-stressed healthcare organizations. If anything, the 2020 pandemic has illustrated the vast potential of interoperability. For
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