With January barely behind us and new occupants in the White House, perhaps it’s a good time to set aside what might change for a moment and focus on what must. Interoperability is a more urgent concern in 2017 due to goals established last year by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONCHIT) and the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act, which legally requires healthcare IT interoperability by the end of the current calendar year.The Interoperability Standards Advisory for 2017, released by
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Hackensack Meridian Health Taps PatientPing to Bring Care Coordination Network to Providers in New Jersey
Hackensack Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health care integrated health care network in New Jersey has partnered with Boston-based health tech company PatientPing to achieve higher quality care through better patient care coordination. As part of the partnership with PatientPing, the healthcare system will implement a care coordination network across all of Hackensack Meridian Health’s 13 hospitals, meaning that providers in the state will be able to see when patients are admitted, discharged
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Carequality, CommonWell Collaborate to Advance Interoperability, Health Data Exchange
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality have announced an agreement that will provide the capability for more than 15,000 hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations to connect and share health information. The collaboration brings together two pioneers at the forefront of data sharing. Health data sharing among providers is important whenever a provider is making a diagnostic or treatment decision and needs access to key medical information. By leveraging health IT
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Cures Law Passed — Health IT Interoperability Will No Longer Be Voluntary
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems.The new 21st Century Cures Act is about to change healthcare IT, and most of the industry never saw it
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Is EHR Data Blocking Blocking Finally on Its Last Leg?
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsHealthcare industry market analysts, technology gurus and IT reporters sometimes like to envision a
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HealthTap Launches HealthTap Cloud for Developers to Build Interoperable, Engaging, Smart Health Apps
HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to doctors and their knowledge via video, text, and voice has unveiled HealthTap Cloud™, a innovative development platform that enables health developers to build health apps more efficiently and cost effectively. HealthTap Cloud offers the best developers, large or small, a full suite of microservices through APIs and SDKs, any combination of which can be used to build/enhance features or power entire apps.HealthTap Cloud is
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Surescripts Offers EHR Vendors Free Access to National Record Locator Service
Health information network Surescripts announced that it will offer EHR vendors free access to its National Record Locator Service, a service that gives providers an effective way to obtain a more complete view of a patient’s health history until 2019. Early EHR adopters of the NRLS include A number of leading EHR vendors, including Aprima, eClinicalWorks (eCW), Epic, Greenway Health, and NextGen Healthcare have already agreed to offer the capability to their users.“Our customers have already
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McKesson Launches Interoperability Platform to Build FHIR API Apps
Today, McKesson Health Solutions (MHS) unveiled the McKesson Intelligence Hub, a new technology platform for enabling interoperability and sharing business intelligence among healthcare apps. The result of a multi-year development program, the Intelligence Hub is designed to connect MHS’s portfolio of automated reimbursement solutions and help streamline payment by making interoperability easy for customers, partners and vendors across the healthcare ecosystem.Moving Beyond Data
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KLAS: Industry Executives Establish Interoperability Benchmark Model
To help resolve some of the key interoperability challenges in the health IT industry, several key EHR and provider stakeholders met at the recent KLAS Cornerstone Summit last month to establish a new interoperability benchmark model and roadmap. The framework, agreed upon by industry representatives, is largely based on the 2016 Interoperability KLAS study design, which focuses on the clinical end users’ experience related to the following: 1. Availability of needed information2. Ease of
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UMass Memorial, PatientPing Partner on Interoperability Network Initiative
UMass Memorial Health Care is teaming up with PatientPing, a Boston-based national care coordination network that connects healthcare providers with real-time clinical event notifications on a data-sharing initiative in Massachusetts. The goal of the partnership is to foster higher quality care through better patient care coordination in a state whose efforts thus far have been challenged by competitive barriers. Early data shows that a significant number of patients who receive care at UMass
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