What You Should Know: - The Sequoia Project, an advocate for health information exchange and health IT interoperability, was chosen by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to continue as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to support the implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). - The non-profit was awarded a five-year contract to continue the public-private engagement in support of a nationwide
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Azalea Health, Particle Health Integrate to Enhance Interoperability for Rural Provider Care Delivery
What You Should Know: - Azalea Health forms a strategic partnership with Particle Health to foster a seamless interoperability of vital healthcare data, streamline communication, and elevate the standard of patient care for the rural health market. - By integrating Azalea's state-of-the-art ambulatory and inpatient solutions with Particle's robust data exchange infrastructure, healthcare providers, even those in rural locations, will gain access to a unified platform capable of
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Sequoia Project, AHIMA Launches Data Usability Initiative
What You Should Know: The Sequoia Project and AHIMA, today announced the launch of a new initiative called Data Usability Taking Root to make health data more useful. 11 organizations have already committed to participating in the group and implementing and improving the best practices for data usability created over three years by 260+ Sequoia members. The organizations that have committed to implementing data usability include Azuba, Civitas Networks for Health, Epic, Foothold
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How EHR Interoperability Will Impact Health Care IT in 2023 and Beyond
The U.S. healthcare system has been in desperate need of modernization for decades. Thankfully, essential change is finally happening. IT workers at healthcare organizations are now creating more efficient and effective electronic health records (EHRs), a process that requires integrating EHRs with new patient-access technologies. It also means that other healthcare workers – medical assistants, teletriage nurses, call center agents, etc. – need to change the way they work in
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Why Interoperability is Key to Successful Digital Pharma Solutions
We are at an interesting crossroads when it comes to pharma and digital health. Several years after the first iteration of digital patient solutions was initially launched, many pharma companies are taking a step back to strategically evaluate how they have performed in practice and the impact they have had on both patient and business outcomes. Unfortunately, many platforms that pharma companies have either integrated within existing platforms or built have failed to meet those needs – for
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U.S. Virgin Islands Launches Health Data Interoperability Pilot
What You Should Know: U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Governor Albert Bryan Jr. signed a Letter of Intent with CRISP Shared Services to participate in a health data interoperability pilot program that will lay the foundation for OHIT’s Health Information Exchange in the Territory. The pilot establishes the initial phase of the Territory’s Health Information Exchange (HIE), which will enable the instant sharing of health information among doctors’ offices, hospitals, federally qualified health
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Health Tech UX – Why We Must Keep Physicians Top-of-Mind
The shortage of physicians in America is a growing concern, with serious consequences for our nation’s hospitals. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimates a shortage of between 21,000 and 77,100 non-primary care physicians by 2034, including surgical and other medical specialists. Already, 50% of hospitals are short coverage for three or more specialties, and 90% are short at least one. Half of the nation’s hospitals ended 2022 in the red, and for many Americans, getting
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Amazon HealthLake Adds 3 New FHIR API Capabilities to Offerings
What You Should Know: AWS announced the addition of three new capabilities to Amazon HealthLake’s managed FHIR API offerings. The launch of these three new capabilities benefits EHR system providers, ISVs, SIs, and IT teams working with healthcare organizations, by allowing them to simply leverage managed FHIR APIs to build interoperability applications or systems that conform to ONC and CMS patient access rules, reducing the burden of building and managing the underlying FHIR APIs
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Interoperability Institute Launches Virtual Innovation Center with AWS
What You Should Know: The Interoperability Institute (IOI), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on scaling interoperability for the health information technology (HIT) sector, today announced that it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch Interop.WORLD, a Virtual Innovation Center designed to accelerate critical advancements within the industry. IOI was created by the Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) to tackle the challenges around healthcare
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The Evolution of Interoperability in Healthcare: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are Today, and Where We’re Going
We take for granted that we can seamlessly send money to another person regardless of where they bank, or that we can easily text someone who uses a different cellular network. It’s called interoperability, where disparate systems can seamlessly connect and share data with each other and it’s almost always in real or virtually real-time. This ease of data sharing across systems may be a reality in most areas of our lives, but it still eludes healthcare. Initiatives to improve
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