Search Results: "hl7"
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Why a Former ONC Chief Thinks TEFCA Is Inherently Flawed
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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Health IT Firms Could Be Fined Up to $1M for Info Blocking Starting 9/1
Beginning September 1, HHS’ Office of the Inspector General will begin enforcing the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. EHR vendors are the entities that are most at risk of being fined — they could face penalties up to $1 million.
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CareEvolution Webinar Highlights Healthcare Data Management Evolution
Health tech experts explained the nuances of healthcare data management and ways in which patient data can be cleaned, converted, standardized and harmonized across systems
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Data Governance: Addressing Data Defense and Offense
Proper data governance is essential to ensure the efficient and accurate operation of an organization. It involves creating static rules, dynamic management processes and a comprehensive set of business objectives which must be met to protect the integrity of data within the system.
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MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer
A Travel Health Record Can Improve Patient Outcomes and Alleviate Health Concerns While Traveling
While comprehensive travel health records for those using U.S. health systems are not available today, advances in technology and the legal environment are opening the necessary doors.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
Automation Frees up Clinicians and Staff To Spend More Time Focused On Patient Care
In most cases, healthcare organizations choose not to let employees go following an RPA implementation. Instead, they reallocate their (human) resources where they can be better used, boosting employee satisfaction and easing staff burnout.
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Inflation’s impact on healthcare switchboards and call centers
When it comes to contacting clinicians and patients, the hospital switchboard can be just as […]
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StartUPDATES: New Developments from Healthcare Startups
Check out new developments from Opala, Wheel, GoodRx, Fathom, Tivic Health, and more.
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Demystifying FHIR APIs
In migrating from HL7 v2 (or a proprietary format) to FHIR, your IT or engineering group will be teaching a dozen different systems to speak a new, highly technical language.
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Inflation’s impact on healthcare switchboards and call centers
Hospitals struggle to retain switchboard and call center staff, a situation exacerbated by inflation. Here’s how Parlance is leveraging its call automation tech to help address these needs and improve the caller experience.
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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Interoperability is the secret to effective healthcare
The future of healthcare is unfolding with interoperability and FHIR at the forefront. Access to data can lead patients and healthcare teams to make better, more informed and effective decisions about clinical care.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
CDS Hooks: The “so what” of FHIR for clinicians
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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Health IT, MedCity Influencers
Health data silos are growing: Can CDS Hooks help bridge the gaps?
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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How hospitals are breaking down data silos to improve patient care
Full EHR interoperability and data standardization remain the holy grail: mysterious and elusive. So hospitals are employing different strategies to access a patient’s complete medical history.