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Enabling a Better Future for All by Embracing Healthcare Interoperability

by Rajesh Sharma, Vice President and General Manager of Systems Integration, Data Analytics and Interoperability Product Offerings, Gainwell Technologies 03/10/2023 Leave a Comment

Enabling a Better Future for All by Embracing Healthcare Interoperability

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has laid the critical groundwork to create a connected healthcare system in which patients, providers, and payers can easily exchange information. This is thanks in part to the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule. With new policies now in place, CMS aims to generate better health outcomes through improved interoperability and better access to health information for all stakeholders. CMS has also identified a new
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Implicity Launches SMART on FHIR App to Optimize Interoperability & Workflow Efficiencies

by Fred Pennic 03/03/2023 Leave a Comment

Implicity Launches SMART on FHIR App to Optimize Interoperability & Workflow Efficiencies

What You Should Know: - Implicity, a leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and cardiac data management solutions, released a new SMART on FHIR application to improve interoperability and workflow efficiencies for providers. - The new app improves cardiac remote monitoring workflows by providing clinicians access to Implicity alerts and reports directly within Epic's EHR system. Implicity Background Implicity's cloud-based platform allows cardiac teams to streamline workflows by
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A New Way of Thinking About Interoperability in 2023

by Stuart Hanson, CEO of Avaneer Health 02/24/2023 Leave a Comment

A New Way of Thinking About Interoperability in 2023

Interoperability in the U.S. healthcare system has been an ongoing challenge. While there are several industry initiatives that are going to advance the industry and make incremental progress toward interoperability, there remain several gaps that are unaddressed.   Interoperability is a much broader concept that encompasses more than protocols, APIs, and limited networks. It’s about more than exchanging data through one-to-one connections between a provider, payer, or vendor. True
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The New “Front Door” to Healthcare Can Only Open Fully with True Interoperability

by David Pope, PharmD, CDE Chief Pharmacy Officer, OmniSYS 02/06/2023 Leave a Comment

The New “Front Door” to Healthcare Can Only Open Fully with True Interoperability

Some people think of retail pharmacists as standing behind the counter bottling pills, answering insurance questions, or discussing side effects with a customer.   But the COVID pandemic fundamentally changed the role of the neighborhood pharmacist, from primarily dispensing medication to increasingly being the source of urgent and primary care for patients.  With the successful administration of more than 300 million COVID vaccinations, an ongoing doctor shortage, and
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Smile Digital Health Closes $30M to Expand Health Data Fabric Platform

by Fred Pennic 01/27/2023 Leave a Comment

Smile Digital Health Closes $30M to Expand Health Data Fabric Platform

What You Should Know: - Smile CDR Inc. (doing business as Smile Digital Health) ("Smile"), a FHIR® health data fabric (HDF) and exchange solutions provider raises $30M in Series B growth capital led by existing investors including UPMC Enterprises.  - Founded in 2016, Smile's HDF platform uses industry-leading HDF architecture and ONC-compliant, event-driven FHIR APIs to allow healthcare providers, payers and IT vendors to build secure,
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The Health Data Interoperability Highway Is Coming. Is Your Organization Ready?

by Lee Barrett, Commission Executive Director of DirectTrust 01/20/2023 Leave a Comment

health data The Interoperability Highway Is Coming. Is Your Organization Ready?

Not many of us remember a time when there weren’t interstates widely available to help us get to where we need to go. Winding roads and sleepy towns can be nostalgic, but they’re not great time savers when time is of the essence. At a macro level, The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) promises to be the interoperability superhighway for healthcare data, speeding information on patients from care facility and care provider — regardless of location or healthcare entity —
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80% of Healthcare Execs Want Complete Clinical Data From Other EHRs

by Syed Hamza Sohail 01/17/2023 Leave a Comment

80% of Healthcare Execs Want Complete Clinical Data From Other EHRs to Enrich Their Own Data

What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network and interoperability provider, released it's inaugural 2023 State of Interoperability report today to understand how healthcare decision-makers are approaching their clinical data strategies in light of patient privacy concerns and new federal regulations. - The study, conducted in collaboration with Flexpa and the Health Management Academy, found that 60% of health systems report duplicative or incomplete data retrieved
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Cybersecurity: Is SOC2 Worth The Hype for Healthcare Organizations?

by Ankit Kumar Agarwal, Director-IT Delivery Services at NewWave Telecom & Technologies Inc. 01/17/2023 Leave a Comment

4 Data Security Challenges for Healthcare Organizations in 2022

The healthcare industry has always been a prominent target for cybercriminals worldwide. They can access high-value patient PHI/PII data and use it maliciously to disrupt the patient’s treatment routine and bring down uptime, which is critical. It has repercussions on patients, doctors, hospitals, and everything associated with the healthcare ecosystem. Information security is a reason for concern for all organizations, including those that outsource key business operations to third-party
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DirectTrust and EHNAC Announce Merger Agreement

by Fred Pennic 11/17/2022 Leave a Comment

CHIME, DirectTrust Partner to Promote Secure, Interoperable Exchange of Health Information

What You Should Know: - DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) today announced an agreement to merge EHNAC with and into DirectTrust, effective January 4, 2023.  - DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information. EHNAC is a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body for organizations that electronically
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Vivalink Integrates with Garmin, Other Wearables to Address RPM Interoperability

by Fred Pennic 11/16/2022 Leave a Comment

Vivalink Integrates with Garmin, Other Wearables to Address RPM Interoperability

What You Should Know:   - Vivalink is addressing these RPM interoperability challenges by announcing today that leading wearables and medical-grade devices are integrating with the company’s Biometrics Data Platform. - Now, leading pulse oximeters, blood glucose monitors and sleep monitors by companies like Garmin and Roche are available alongside the Platform to accelerate development and deployment of novel healthcare applications and research. Why It Matters Integration and
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