Scott Galbari, CTO, LyniateDrew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate
Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last year or so, as hackers are increasingly targeting health information. Now, with a global pandemic forcing a shift to telemedicine and remote work, and new rules from the ONC and CMS introducing more regulatory burden, healthcare CIOs have more to manage than ever. Fortunately, it is possible to roll out new capabilities while
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For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications
Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH
A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Readmission penalties. Of the 3,080 hospitals CMS evaluated, 83% received a penalty for payments to be made in 2021, based on expected outcomes for a wide variety of treated conditions. While CMS indicated that some of these penalties might be waived or
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5 Myth-Busting New Hospital ADT Notification Requirements
Claudia Williams, CEO of Manifest MedEx
When doctors know their patients have been to the hospital, they can act fast to provide needed support. Widespread use of hospital event notifications is associated with all kinds of health benefits, including a 10 percent decrease in readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries. These event notifications are one of the simplest, easiest (most-bipartisan!), and most impactful changes we can make to improve patient outcomes in U.S. healthcare.
To this
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Unite Us Expands Social Determinants of Health Platform to 6 States
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us, the tech company building coordinated care
networks nationwide announced a significant expansion to its partnership with
Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NEHII), a health information exchange,
to six additional states.
- This growing partnership aims to break down existing obstacles between
clinical and social service providers to allow for improved SDoH workflows, comprehensive,
whole-person care with trackable outcomes and data, and the creation
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The COVID-19 Data Challenges Facing Payers
Dr. Chris Hobson, Chief Medical Officer, Orion Health
Both payers and providers can benefit from the same or similar high-quality data and can work together to provide the best possible services to patients with COVID-19 while avoiding overloading the healthcare system. The key is to use combined payer, clinical, and social data plus technology such as telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI).
Payer Perspective on COVID-19
The overriding concern for payers during the COVID-19 crisis
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HHS Announces Investments for STAR HIE Program to Support State and Local Public Health Agencies
What You Should Know:
- HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will award up to five 5 cooperative
agreements under the Strengthening
the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange
(STAR HIE) Program.
The U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to expand and
accelerate innovative
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Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds
Brian Dixon, PhD, is director of public health informatics at Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. Shaun Grannis, M.D., is vice president for data and analytics at Regenstrief Institute and a professor of family medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.
What You Should Know:
- A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate
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Redox, Curative Partner to Connect COVID-19 Test Results to Public Health Depts.
What You Should Know:
- Curative and Redox have found a way to easily send COVID-19 test results to state officials for reporting, contact tracing programs, and to inform policies as regions move through phases for re-opening the economy.
- Since formalizing the partnership in May, the duo has kicked off projects with 24 states, with two, Illinois and Delaware, now fully live.
- In this novel use case, Curative uses the Redox API to allow for a secure, efficient flow of data between
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Health IT’s Vital Role in Controlling The Spread of COVID-19
Drew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate
The healthcare system in the United States is becoming overwhelmed as a result of COVID-19 and there is no doubt that this epidemic will test the limits of healthcare delivery systems from end to end. Of course, at the present moment, everyone’s focus is (and rightly should be) on ensuring hospitals and healthcare workers have the appropriate equipment and protective gear they need to stay safe and adequately treat patients. That
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MDPortals Taps Health Gorilla APIs to Power Clinical Data Insights
- MDPortals adopts Health Gorilla APIs to bring proprietary care insights to providers from a vast network of clinical systems.
- MDPortals will leverage Health Gorilla’s Patient360 API to retrieve clinical records from thousands of care sites across the country, augmenting MDPortals existing connections to health information exchanges and patient portals.
Health Gorilla, a leader in clinical data
APIs, and MDPortals, a leading
clinical insights company, announced today a partnership
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