Katya Samardina
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created a new electronic event notification (e-notification) Condition of Participation (CoP) as part of the Interoperability and Patient Access Rule.
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Katya Samardina
At a connectathon health systems, payers, health IT vendors, and government entities send their best and brightest IT minds to see if their product’s data-exchange capabilities are compatible with other products in use or in development in the healthcare industry.
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Katya Samardina
Health information sharing is becoming increasingly important, as all those involved in the delivery of care to patients now expect that the information they need to be available to them at the point of care and not locked into the ‘silos of collection’ which has historically been the case.
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Katya Samardina
How is FHIR® is boosting information sharing? FHIR® or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources is an IT healthcare standard that will help to improve the day to day running of community medical practices and hospitals...
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Katya Samardina
While there has been a lot of discussion regarding interoperability as the future of healthcare, there are still a number of significant roadblocks for true interoperability.
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Katya Samardina
Health IT professionals have long advocated the urgent need for computerized systems to connect, communicate, share, and interpret data under the banner of “interoperability,” but while there has been significant uptake in purchases, there hasn’t been the same uptake in usage.
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Katya Samardina
Before true interoperability in healthcare is achieved, writes ehrintelligence.com editor Kate Monica, a number of challenges will have to be addressed. Read the full article here.
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Katya Samardina
It’s now essential to have efficient and secure care coordination between caregivers, providers, and stakeholders. So what would stop a provider from embracing new technology and systems that point toward this outcome?
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A recent post from the FHIR® Product Director Grahame Grieve has announced that Release 3 of FHIR® has been published, and is now available at hl7.org/FHIR. What does this mean, and what’s the impact on you?
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