There’s been a strong push for a FHIR standard for information sharing in healthcare. Although a standard built on application programming interfaces (APIs) using data standards like FHIR is a step in the right direction, in today’s healthcare ecosystem, there’s a broader impact to consider.
The industry avoided a major health equity setback when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of National Coordinator (ONC) nixed prescriptive language in the HTI-1 rule,
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How Connected Healthcare Operations Helps Health Systems Work Smarter, Not Harder
When it comes to healthcare, efficiency isn’t just a goal—it’s a lifeline. With a growing and aging patient population and widespread workforce shortages, hospitals and health systems must find ways to increase efficiencies and do more with less, while providing safe, high-quality care. This starts with liberating data and connecting healthcare operations solutions across the enterprise.
The Epidemic of Siloed Data
The volume of healthcare data is growing exponentially, with a
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Redox, Snowflake Partner to Streamline Healthcare Data Exchange for AI and Machine Learning
What You Should Know:
- Redox, a healthcare interoperability company, and Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, have joined forces to simplify the exchange of healthcare data.
- This strategic partnership aims to revolutionize how healthcare organizations access and utilize patient data, ultimately leading to improved patient care.
Unifying Legacy Systems for Seamless Data Flow
The collaboration leverages Redox's expertise in unifying healthcare data from various sources,
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ONC Brief Reveals Current State of Hospital Data Interoperability
What You Should Know:
- A new report by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) examines the current state of electronic health information exchange among hospitals in the United States. The findings reveal progress in interoperability but also highlight areas where improvement is needed.
- In addition, this brief describes the breadth of electronic information exchange between hospitals and other providers across the care continuum
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MatrixCare, Health Gorilla Partner to Streamline Post-Acute Care with Secure Data Exchange
What You Should Know:
- MatrixCare, a provider of technology solutions for post-acute care facilities, has announced a strategic partnership with Health Gorilla.
- The strategic integration empowers MatrixCare to seamlessly integrate comprehensive patient data into its Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform, leveraging Health Gorilla's robust national network.
Challenges of Fragmented Healthcare Data
Effective patient care in today's healthcare landscape often requires
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The Future of Human Health May Require Unlocking Access to Our Health Data
The synergy of artificial intelligence (AI) and medical imaging has opened new horizons for healthcare. AI-mediated computer vision has been in use in oncology for more than 20 years; however, its arrival in other medical fields, notably dentistry, is more recent. Dentistry is particularly notable here, because while relatively few people have seen an oncologist, almost everyone sees a dentist at least every few years. The application of AI in dentistry, thus, extends to a much broader
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Interoperability: How Hospitals Share Healthcare Data Can Cost Lives, We Can All Do Better
Patient data interoperability sounds like industry jargon, but it’s a vital piece of providing timely and accurate patient care. Since 1996, when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law, there have been good advances in patient data interoperability, but as a whole, the industry has not embraced them.
Sharing data through faxing and CDs is still very common. As recently as 2023, between 30 and 47 percent of hospitals across all sizes reported still
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ONC Releases Common Agreement V2.0, Paving the Way for TEFCA Exchange via FHIR
What You Should Know:
- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), along with The Sequoia Project, Inc., a Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), has released Common Agreement Version 2.0 (CA v2.0).
What is the Common Agreement?
The Common Agreement establishes a set of common rules and technical standards for secure health information exchange across different health information networks (HINs) and their users. This essentially creates a common
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Particle Health Addresses Integration to Epic Data Despite Dispute
What You Should Know:
- Particle Health, a healthcare data platform company, is addressing concerns about a reported data access disruption with electronic health record (EHR) giant Epic.
- Particle Health emphasizes that the vast majority of its customers continue to receive data from Epic uninterrupted, despite recent announcements suggesting otherwise.
The Dispute and Its Impact
However, Particle Health acknowledges a dispute with Epic that began in March 2024. While
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Rhapsody Launches AI for Identity with Rhapsody Autopilot
What You Should Know:
- Rhapsody, a leader in digital health enablement, has unveiled a groundbreaking technology called Rhapsody Autopilot.
- The first-of-its-kind solution utilizes machine learning (ML) to automatically link patient records, ensuring a comprehensive view that aligns with each customer's specific preferences.
The Problem: Drowning in Data
The healthcare industry faces a growing challenge: a constant surge of patient information. Managing this data effectively,
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