Now is the time to solve the industry’s identity crisis, and it can only be done through a combination of phishing-resistant and adaptive MFA, fine-grained access control, and standards-based interoperability.

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Anyone working in health IT knows that exchanging data isn’t the same as understanding it. The next evolution in interoperability is ensuring that data carries meaning as it traverses the ecosystem.

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Strategic planning for the upcoming measurement year should incorporate thorough communication between the health plan, its HEDIS vendor, and auditor.  

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Dr. Rowland Illing explained how life science companies and health systems are leveraing AWS HealthLake to transform healthcare.

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A clinically led, cross-functional team approach is essential during medical device integration projects to close data gaps, overcome common project pitfalls, complete optimal testing, and ensure proper oversight.

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Picture each patient with a computational model of their health where each treatable parameter (like weight, blood pressure, heart rate, exercise, inflammation, and blood chemistry) serves both as a marker for diagnosis and as an opportunity for treatment.

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Without systemic redesign, these efforts risk reinforcing the same pain points that made prior authorization a flashpoint for payers and providers.

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We know from everyday purchasing of goods and services that you have to combine what you’re getting with what you’re paying for that good or service. But how does this basic consumer supplier concept play out in US healthcare?

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Jill DeGraff, B.well Connected Health’s senior vice president of regulatory, believes the ONC’s new HTI-1 rule is a step in the right direction that will improve data exchange for providers, health tech vendors and patients. She applauded the rule for preserving TEFCA as a voluntary framework and for establishing FHIR-based interoperability as the industry’s de facto standard.

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Last week, the ONC announced that TEFCA had finally gone live. This followed years of the ONC heralding the project’s potential to boost interoperability and increase patients’ access to their healthcare data. However, former ONC Chief Don Rucker believes that TEFCA is built on an archaic data exchange protocol that will prevent the initiative from being useful.

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Smile Digital Health recently raised $30 million in Series B capital. The startup sells its health data fabric platform to providers, payers, digital health vendors and researchers. The platform gives customers the ability to store, search and evaluate patient information.

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Adding CDS Hooks — the HL7 published specification for clinical decision support — to the technology mix will streamline clinical workflows, particularly as the sources and quantities of data continue to expand at a rapid pace.

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The CDS Hooks API is a new specification that builds on FHIR, describing how EHRs can automatically invoke external platforms or apps. For the first time, by CDS Hooks invoking FHIR apps, EHR-only users can have insights relevant to the clinical situation and within their EHR workflow based on data sourced outside of it. CDS Hooks is potentially a powerful way to ensure that all patient data can be accessed via the EHR.

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SMART-on-FHIR is the inflection point for driving the shift to value-based care. The reason: It offers another pathway to integration in which user experiences, not just discrete data, are shared across systems, enabling lightning quick implementation.

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Though the total number of unique apps that integrate with major EHRs, like Epic and Cerner, increased from 600 at the end of 2019 to 734 in December 2020, growth in the number of apps that support the FHIR data exchange standard was stagnant.

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As plans struggle to decide how to comply with a badly-worded portion of the final rule on interoperability, they should be thinking about the broader changes at work and whether their choices now prepare them for the world ahead.

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There’s a real opportunity to go beyond a piecemeal, bare-minimum, “check-the-box” approach and think of FHIR mandates as an opportunity to kick-start consistency across your API landscape.

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An API-first approach supports low-code solutions, and that is of immense value to healthcare facilities right now.

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Although the deadline for compliance with the FHIR patient access rules is fast approaching, most payers are not prepared,

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Just like with the drive for Open Banking, Open Healthcare presents huge opportunities but a strategy and governance together with an open platform needs to be in place to gain trust with healthcare members to put the patient back at the center,

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We need to keep in mind three key elements to successfully implement the final interoperability rules from CMS that require private payers to provide longitudinal claims data to members as well as the use of open APIs so a range of third-party applications can be built.

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The Department of Health and Human Services released two much-anticipated final rules on interoperability. The rules require health IT companies to gives patients access to their data and will penalize providers who don’t make patient data available.

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Participants will have the ability to request a Medicare beneficiary claims data from CMS to better understand their medical history and previous treatment patterns from other providers

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Redox CEO Luke Bonney said the company saw more than 300 percent growth in its customer base over 2018 which led to the search of an investment partner to accelerate that momentum and help fund further product development.

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AI tools for automating malaria detection, improving stroke care and predicting suicide risk are among the technologies Partners believes have the greatest potential to impact healthcare in the next year.

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New proposed rules from HHS would require government health plans and health plans sold on the federal ACA exchanges to give patients free access and control over their health information by 2020 and to implement an HL7 FHIR-based API to open up data access to third party apps and developers.

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The new tools build on the company’s Azure cloud platform and allow more efficient and secure communication and sharing of personal health information.

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A survey of UC San Diego Apple Health Records users found that 96 percent respondents said it was easy to link their mobile device to the personal health record program.

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Through a new integration with Apple Health Records, the company’s physicians are able to access a patient’s medical history with the Heal OnCall iPad app, speeding up the data sharing process and better informing decisions by the care team.

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What do Chief Medical Information Officers need to know about the role that FHIR can play in streamlining successful third party EMR deployments? Learn from this article that provide project management tips that simplify integrations and a list of all the key resources necessary for a successful roll-out.

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