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80% of Healthcare Execs Want Complete Clinical Data From Other EHRs

by Syed Hamza Sohail 01/17/2023 Leave a Comment

80% of Healthcare Execs Want Complete Clinical Data From Other EHRs to Enrich Their Own Data

What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network and interoperability provider, released it's inaugural 2023 State of Interoperability report today to understand how healthcare decision-makers are approaching their clinical data strategies in light of patient privacy concerns and new federal regulations. - The study, conducted in collaboration with Flexpa and the Health Management Academy, found that 60% of health systems report duplicative or incomplete data retrieved
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Innovaccer Joins the CARIN Alliance to Advance Interoperability

by Fred Pennic 06/24/2022 Leave a Comment

Innovaccer Joins the CARIN Alliance to Advance Interoperability

What You Should Know: - Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that it has joined the CARIN Alliance (CARIN), a multisector collaborative working to rapidly advance the consumer-directed exchange of health information to improve the interoperability of healthcare data. - Innovaccer will participate as a member of the multisector alliance to advance healthcare data sharing, enabling consumers, patients, and caregivers easier access to health
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What’s The Role of Digital Health in Public Health?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 04/29/2022 Leave a Comment

What is the Role of Digital Health in Public Health?

To a certain extent, the national conversation about the importance of a robust public health system has been happening for the last couple of years in the context of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, rather than discussing how the system can be strengthened and expanded, we’ve instead largely limited it to what the government can and cannot ask the public to do, as though the necessity of a public health system is still in doubt. For those who work in the arena, this is not an
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Health Gorilla Raises $50M to Expand FHIR-Native Health Interoperability Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 03/07/2022 Leave a Comment

Health Gorilla Raises $50M to Expand FHIR-Native Health Interoperability Platform

What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla raises $50 million in Series C funding to securely enable the exchange of actionable and aggregated clinical data. - The new investment will accelerate Health Gorilla's mission to connect everyone, everywhere, with actionable health data. Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, CA-based health interoperability platform, today announced it has raised $50M in Series C funding led by SignalFire with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, IA Capital, and
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Information Blocking Rule: 6 Key Takeaways Since Meaningful Use

by Leigh Burchell, Vice President of Policy & Government Affairs, Allscripts 11/22/2021 Leave a Comment

Information Blocking Rule: 6 Key Takeaways Since Meaningful Use

Information exchange and data availability are now a cost of doing business but establishing a robust strategy for that exchange and compliance with the new regulation from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology takes careful planning. Healthcare organizations can achieve and maintain compliance by following these six takeaways: 1. Understand what constitutes “Electronic Health Information” “Electronic Health Information,” ONC’s new term for the data
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Escalating Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations Highlight Need for Security Interventions

by Michelle Drolet, CEO of Towerwall 02/15/2021 Leave a Comment

Escalating Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations Highlight Need for Security Interventions

Healthcare organizations have faced continual stress from heavy COVID-19 caseloads in 2020. Cyberattacks on their information networks also loomed as a serious threat, and the pressure to protect data is expected to grow this year, as more criminals target healthcare providers. Protecting patient data from unauthorized access has long been a regulatory prerequisite for healthcare organizations. But increasingly, cybercriminals see profit potential in attacking and crippling their networks,
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Despite COVID-19: Providers Should Not Lose Sight of MIPS Compliance

by Courtney Tesvich VP, Regulatory at Nextech 12/11/2020 Leave a Comment

Despite COVID-19: Providers Should Not Lose Sight of MIPS Compliance

When 2020 began, no one anticipated that complying with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)—the flagship payment model of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Payment Program (QPP)—would look so different halfway through the year. Like many other things, the COVID-19 crisis has delayed, diverted, or derailed many organizations’ reporting efforts and capabilities. Lower procedure volumes, new remote work scenarios, and shifting priorities have taken attention
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5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers

by Shanti Wilson, Consultant, Freed Associates 12/07/2020 Leave a Comment

5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers

As if 2020 couldn’t be any more challenging for healthcare providers, new federal rules on interoperability and patient access, granting patients direct access to their healthcare data, begin taking effect in 2021 and will continue into 2022. These rules, while ultimately beneficial to patients, bring an additional level of operational complexity to many revenue-stressed healthcare organizations. If anything, the 2020 pandemic has illustrated the vast potential of interoperability. For
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HHS Extends Compliance Dates for Information Blocking Requirements

by Fred Pennic 10/29/2020 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - HHS released an interim final rule to extend compliance dates and timeframes to meet information blocking beyond those identified in April 21, 2020, enforcement discretion announcement and establishes new future applicability dates for information blocking provisions. - The interim final rule also adopts updated standards and makes technical corrections and clarifications to the ONC Cures Act Final Rule. Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’
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5 Trends Driving The Future of Healthcare Real Estate in 2020 & Beyond

by Moha Desai, Principal, Healthcare Strategy & Transformation 10/22/2020 Leave a Comment

The COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed patient expectations for healthcare delivery, including offered services and health office operations. Although health systems have remained dynamic in adopting telehealth capabilities, their long-term capital, like real estate and supply chain management (SCM) protocols, have not adapted to match these expectations. Health systems must be aware of current trends in both areas to inform their future decisions.  Divesting in healthcare real estate
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