Long before the pandemic, digital applications were already incredibly important to healthcare organizations, but over the last few years, they have become essential. Applications can assist with scheduling appointments, virtual doctor visits, accessing medical records and conducting tests down to the most complex AI-powered technologies such as medical imaging. As COVID-19 fundamentally transformed the way industries operate, healthcare has been the world’s focus as physicians, nurses, EMTs,
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4 Trends in Senior Care Critical for the Future of Interoperability
When America’s seniors went to their first doctor’s appointment, they couldn’t have imagined that their health history would be stored anywhere but in a manila folder. Now, nine out of every 10 physicians use electronic health records (EHRs), and patient's health data lives on cloud servers. Though we’ve certainly come a long way from handwritten notes in filing cabinets, electronic health data still often exist in silos, and that can make caring for our aging population difficult. Consider
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Real-World Data Flow – The Only Way to Change Value-Based Care?
Healthcare interoperability issues have always been confusing, changing, and difficult to address. The reason why is not straightforward: we have a fragmented health system with a myriad of specialized applications that are not universally used. Instead, we have a system where each organization elects which technology tools to use and in what configuration. Compounding this fragmented system is the push to value-based care (VBC). As more organizations shift their focus to VBC models, the need
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DirectTrust Acquires Assets of SAFE Identity to Support Healthcare Interoperability
What You Should Know: - DirectTrust today announced it has acquired the assets of SAFE Identity (including Trust Framework), an industry consortium and certification body supporting identity assurance and cryptography in healthcare. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - The acquisition substantially extends DirectTrust’s capabilities and services and is expected to enable new and expanded interoperability use cases. Post-Acquisition Plans As part of the
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Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack
For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely slow to adapt when it comes to implementing modern technology to improve everyday processes—both inside and outside clinical settings. In many hospitals, manual phone calls and fax machines are still some of the most relied upon methods for exchanging information. Healthcare IT, meanwhile, has traditionally
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ConsenSys Health Acquires FHIRBlocks to Enable Control of Their Confidential Health Data
What You Should Know: ConsenSys Health, a Las Vegas-based provider delivering next-generation infrastructure for healthcare and life sciences, today agreed to acquire FHIRBlocks, an innovative developer of advanced solutions to support self-sovereign patient-directed fine-grained sharing of their protected personal health information. - The acquisition includes the transfer of FHIRBlocks’ technological and other IP, as well as key executives and staff, business activities, and
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Smile CDR Raises $20M to Expand FHIR-Driven Data Liberation Platform for Interoperability
What You Should Know: - Smile CDR Inc. (Smile CDR), a Toronto-based health data storage and integration company, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by 30 North Group, a Seattle-based family office, and UPMC Enterprises. - Founded in 2016, Smile CDR offers a suite of services that allow health systems, payers and hospitals to meet U.S. health information interoperability standards rapidly and securely. Smile CDR's data and integration platform includes a complete
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Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Launches Azure Healthcare APIs
What You Should Know: - Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare announced it is expanding its portfolio of interoperability data services for the health and life sciences industry with Azure Healthcare APIs. - Built for the requirements of Protected Health Information (PHI), Azure Healthcare APIs enable customers with a platform as a service (PaaS) to ingest, manage, and persist data in the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Anyone working with health data can
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Infor Launches FHIR Server to Support Interoperability
What You Should Know: - Infor, the industry cloud company, announced its FHIR Server, the company’s vision for helping healthcare organizations better leverage and analyze their data. Built on the latest web technologies, Infor FHIR Server is one of the most advanced, modern, and scalable FHIR servers commercially available. - With the new solution, organizations can extend their EHR and clinical systems’ FHIR and API capabilities beyond their current limited support, streamline care
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Jonathan Bush’s Second Venture Zus Health Launches with $34M for Health Data Interoperability Platform
What You Should Know: - Former athenahealth founder and CEO Jonathan Bush, today announced the launch of Zus Health (“Zus” pronounced Zoos like the father of Athena) focused on creating the industry’s first shared development platform backed by a shared data record. - The company is launching with the close of $34M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, Rock Health, Martin Ventures and Oxeon Investments also participated in
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