What You Should Know:
- Inovalon announced the availability of its Cloud-Based “Consumer Health Gateway” Module, alleviating the need for health plans to build their own Patient Access API to comply with the new requirement of the 21st Century Cures Act.
- The Consumer Health Gateway is a consumer portal allowing the FHIR®-based exchange of a patient’s claims and clinical data securely with authorized third-party applications. It consists of a robust patient consent and authentication
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Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Advance Interoperability in Healthcare
(Left- Wilson To, Head of Worldwide Healthcare BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Patrick Combes, Worldwide Technical Leader - Healthcare and Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Right)Navigating the healthcare system is often a complex journey involving multiple physicians from hospitals, clinics, and general practices. At each junction, healthcare providers collect data that serve as pieces in a patient’s medical puzzle. When all of that data can be shared at each point, the puzzle is
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What Will It Take To Build The Uber of Medical Records? 3 Critical Steps to Consider
Our healthcare system has struggled with data silos and clumsy, antiquated data sharing practices forever and a variety of stakeholders will need to work together to achieve anything close to an “Uber of medical records.”
It’s well documented and understood that the healthcare industry has historically been slow to adopt new technology while other business sectors have welcomed it with ease. For example, while most industries abandoned the fax machine in the 1990s, as recently as 2017, fax
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Bridge Connector Raises Additional $5M for No Code, Health Integration Platform
- Bridge Connector raises an additional $5M reaching a total of $25M in funding for its data-driven workflow automation to solve health IT interoperability challenges. - The additional financing will support Bridge Connector’s continued scalability and its upcoming launch of Destinations, a new “no-code” integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that connects health data systems without the need for code.- The company plans to close on Series B funding in the second quarter of 2020, further
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Health Gorilla Becomes Largest Interoperability Provider in Puerto Rico
- Health Gorilla expands clinical interoperability efforts in Puerto Rico with four new partners adopting its secure interoperability solution. - Through its expanded client base and patient reach, Health Gorilla has become the largest interoperability solutions provider in Puerto Rico.Health Gorilla, a Silicon Valley-based secure interoperability solution, announced today new partners that have adopted its technology platform to advance clinical interoperability efforts in Puerto Rico. Health
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EMR Replacement: Abstraction or Data Migration?
Most healthcare organizations have already managed the transition from paper to electronic medical records. It was time-consuming, challenging and nerve-wracking. But with the first-generation of EMRs approaching the end of their usefulness, with mergers and acquisitions requiring the adoption of new systems (most incompatible with the legacy systems), with the advent of new government standards, more rigorous legal requirements and higher expectations associated with “value-based care” and
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Geisinger’s KeyHIE to Deploy FHIR-Based Imaging App Across Network
Key Highlights- Geisinger’s KeyHIE has selected Life Image to become the first in the nation to implement FHIR-based imaging app to share diagnostic content in the provider portal. - From the KeyHIE provider portal, doctors can call up a patient’s medical imaging directly through the Life Image Viewer app and examine it while reading the diagnostic report within their portal.- The solution allows the integration of actionable data and clinically important information for diagnosis or treatment
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MEDITECH to Offer Expanse EHR Through Google Cloud Platform
- MEDITECH Expanse platform will be one of the first EHRs available through Google Cloud Platform (GCP), delivering a new level of digital transformation. - Collaboration with Google Cloud will securely deliver greater access to patient data, facilitating interoperability, and enhancing scalability.As healthcare organizations look for new ways to enhance health IT interoperability while reducing infrastructure costs, many are turning to the cloud. Today, MEDITECH announced it is expanding the
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Through EHR Integration, CVS Specialty Launches Specialty Expedite to Streamline Prescription Onboarding
- CVS Specialty launches Specialty Expedite, a pharmacy solution that uses technology to significantly streamline the process and keep patients informed of the status of their prescription along the way.
- Streamlined prior authorization and benefits verification process using connectivity with EHR platforms, helping patients get their medications in as little as three days.
- Patients are also able to choose how they want to get their specialty medications – at their local CVS
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Allscripts Certifies Redox as First Global Integration Engine of Allscripts Developer Program
- Allscripts has certified Redox as the first global integration engine of the Allscripts Developer Program (ADP).- Redox provides a single, global connection to Allscripts Unity APIs that digital health vendors can use to integrate and exchange data with approved Allscripts client sites.- All digital health vendors that are part of the Redox Interoperability Network will automatically be eligible for Allscripts Unity API access; these digital health vendors benefit from faster implementation
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