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3 Elements Required for Data Ecosystems to Drive Innovation

by Brett M. Furst, President, HHS Tech Group 12/15/2022 Leave a Comment

Why Medicaid Programs Need to Update Their Information Systems

For years, the healthcare industry has been inundated with stories about the importance of sharing data among payers, providers, and other key stakeholders – and for a good reason; widespread interoperability of healthcare data has the potential to transform much of the industry for the better. What's often not mentioned is how expensive, time-intensive, and potentially legally hazardous data-sharing is. Combining disparate data sets is a technically challenging undertaking that requires
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Dedalus Expands Work with AWS as Strategic Cloud Provider

by Fred Pennic 12/15/2022 Leave a Comment

Dedalus Expands Work with AWS as Strategic Cloud Provider

What You Should Know: - Dedalus expands work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support global digital transformation in healthcare through hosting Dedalus's health-related solutions on AWS.  - Together, utilizing the cloud, Dedalus and AWS will offer customers around the world cost-optimization and agility via smart provisioning and need-based elasticity, built-in disaster recovery, as well as improved clinical system performance, reliability, availability, and security and
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Out of Sight: Why Invisible Patient Engagement is Optimal Patient Engagement

by James Rachlin, Director of Product, Interoperability at CipherHealth 12/07/2022 Leave a Comment

Out of Sight: Why Invisible Patient Engagement is Optimal Patient Engagement

As a patient engagement product director, there’s nothing that I love to hear more from customers than they live and breathe in the systems we’ve created. We’ve thought long and hard about UI; about the rich dashboards we build; about new ways to expand functionality within the parameters of our applications and programs.  But there’s a hard truth that I—and the healthtech community at large—need to learn, or have already:  Most of the people who use our software aren’t focused
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5 Factors to Consider When Developing a Health Data Platform

by Matt Lavin, Software Architect at LifeOmic 11/11/2022 Leave a Comment

5 Factors to Consider When Developing a Health Data Platform

The conversation around whether a healthcare startup should build a data platform or buy one isn’t anything new. In fact, this has been a debate since cloud-based technologies rose to popularity—we’re just now seeing more startups enter the space and opt to build their platforms internally. Startups choose to build their data platforms for several compelling reasons. For example, it could give them greater control over their data security and architecture or they feel they know their data
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M&A: Smile Digital Health Acquires Alphora

by Syed Hamza Sohail 11/04/2022 Leave a Comment

M&A: Smile Digital Health Acquires Alphora

What You Should Know: - Smile Digital Health, a FHIR® health data fabric and exchange solutions provider, announced that it has acquired Alphora, a market leader in Clinical Quality Language (CQL) that provides tooling and services to unlock clinical reasoning, decision support and other quality metrics capabilities. - As a result of the acquisition, Smile Digital Health customers now have access to Smile Alphora, the company's new clinical reasoning capability that leverages its Fast
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Healthfirst and MediSys Launch FHIR Platform, Hyphen

by Jasmine Pennic 10/12/2022 Leave a Comment

Healthfirst and MediSys Launch FHIR Platform, Hyphen

What You Should Know: - Healthfirst and The MediSys Health Network announced today they are using Hyphen to connect longitudinal data from claims, quality measures and electronic health records (EHRs) to identify gaps in care, making it easier for clinicians to address patient needs in real-time. - Hyphen is a cloud-based platform that uses Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standards to share member data directly into provider or hospital EHR systems, along with patient- and
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ONC and HRSA Launches USCDI+ Initiative to Support UDS Modernization

by Fred Pennic 08/29/2022 Leave a Comment

ONC and HRSA Launches USCDI+ Initiative to Support UDS Modernization

What You Should Know: - ONC and HRSA launches a new USCDI+ collaboration to support HRSA’s Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting through the UDS Modernization Initiative. - Last October ONC announced USCDI+, an initiative to support the identification and establishment of domain or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing USCDI. In particular, ONC envisioned USCDI+ as a service that ONC would provide to federal partners who have a
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The Infrastructure Needed to Meet Health Interoperability Needs

by Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell 07/21/2022 Leave a Comment

The Infrastructure Needed to Meet Health Interoperability Needs

For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. However, with the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, consumers, specifically Medicaid members, there is a greater push to give access to, and ownership of, this data.  With this move towards interoperability comes new requirements healthcare organizations must meet and adhere to under the rule. To meet many of these federal interoperability requirements,
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Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential

by Shawna Koch Mishael, Global Head of Healthcare, Quantori 06/09/2022 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential

This year’s HIMSS Conference offered some exciting insights and a renewed focus on data-sharing and interoperability. While the healthcare industry has been extolling the virtues of data interoperability for years until recently it has remained one of the biggest obstacles to providing quality healthcare today. Yet, the tides are turning. New government regulations, like the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ interoperability rules and the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
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SnapLogic Launches Amazon HealthLake Accelerator to Store, Share Patient Data

by Fred Pennic 06/01/2022 Leave a Comment

SnapLogic Launches Amazon HealthLake Accelerator to Store, Share Patient Data

What You Should Know: - SnapLogic, a provider of Enterprise Automation, today launched the SnapLogic Accelerator for Amazon HealthLake, which enables healthcare and life sciences organizations to easily ingest a range of raw data into Amazon HealthLake, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and transform it into healthcare-related insights and actions. - This new Amazon HealthLake-dedicated integration and automation accelerator will help organizations looking to quickly connect systems,
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