Particle Health, Complete Patient Records & ‘The Business’ of the Information Blocking Rule
By JESSICA DAMASSA Particle Health’s CEO Troy Bannister stops by to not only talk about the API platform company’s $25M Series B, but to also […]
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How Actionable Data and Expert Analysis Supports Service Providers, Fosters Better Care and Ensures Financial Benefits
Ashish Kachru, CEO at DataLink Approximately 42% of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans—a segment projected to reach 46% by 2025. Due to […]
Availity to Acquire Diameter Health to Expand Clinical Data Interoperability
What You Should Know: – One of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks Availity announced an agreement to acquire Diameter Health, a national leader in […]
Digital Front Doors Create Personalized Patient Experience
Aan Chauhan, Chief Technology Officer, Mindtree Heightened patient expectations are changing the way healthcare services are delivered, from the way patients receive care to the […]
E Pluribus Unum
As our nation transitions to a digital healthcare system, our stakeholders are discovering new opportunities for using health information technology to advance health care delivery, […]
APIs for Research: Perspectives from Providers
The Cures Act Final Rule includes regulatory requirements to implement secure, standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs). To support the acceleration of API adoption in health […]
Lyniate Acquires CareCom to Expand Semantic Interop Capabilities
What You Should Know: – Lyniate, a global leader in healthcare data interoperability acquires CareCom, a provider of semantic interoperability. This acquisition builds on Lyniate’s recent merger with NextGate, […]
Time to Chime In: ISA Comment Period Is Now Open
It’s that time of year again! The annual comment period for the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) will be open from July 28 – September 30. This […]
Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell
Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. […]
Can Health Plans Lead Us Towards Data-Driven Health Equity?
Jessica Bonham-Werling, Payer and Provider Solutions Marketing at Redox The Institute for Healthcare improvement indicates that twice as many healthcare organizations cite health equity as […]
Designing Digital Transformation for Life Sciences: Building Resiliency When Disruption is the New Normal
Dan UpDyke, Strategic Marketing Manager Life Sciences at Rockwell Automation The ability to navigate constant disruption is a prerequisite for success in today’s life science […]
Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout?
The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory about clinician burnout cited numerous societal, cultural, structural, and organizational causes—including excessive workloads, administrative burden, and lack of organizational support. The potential fallout of this trajectory is […]
Zocdoc Launches its First-Ever Public API Platform: Zocdoc for Developers
What You Should Know: – Zocdoc, the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy for people to find and book in-person or virtual care across […]
Canvas Medical Raises $24M for EMR & Payments Platform
What You Should Know: – Canvas Medical, the EMR that enables clinicians and developers to power the future of care delivery, has raised $24M in […]
Practicing for the Next Pandemic with Real-World Data
Mac Bonafede, Ph.D., MPH, VP of Real World Evidence at Veradigm Data reporting challenges during the current pandemic relate to the lack of connectivity between […]
6 Success Strategies as CMS Drives More Accountable Care by 2030
Siddharth Thakkar, VP, Product and Marketing at IKS Health For the better part of a decade, the shift toward value-based care in the U.S. has […]
Particle Health Raises $25M to Scale Health Data Exchange API Platform
What You Should Know: – Particle Health, a New York-based API platform for advanced healthcare data exchange, , today announced its Series B financing of […]
Path to Predictive Patient Data: Silencing The Noise of Healthcare
Shane Cooke, CEO and President of Etiometry As the healthcare industry is experiencing major changes in the wake of the pandemic, how do we cut […]
Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?
Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT […]
Unlocking Interoperability with a Blockchain-Powered Network
Mary Butler-Everson, SVP of Healthcare Product Innovations for PNC Treasury Management Achieving fluid data interoperability has been a complex and challenging goal for the U.S. […]
Healthcare Interoperability Has Arrived: 3 Ways to Harness the Potential
Shawna Koch Mishael, Head of Healthcare and Biomedical, RN, MBA, SenecaGlobal This year’s HIMSS Conference offered some exciting insights and a renewed focus on data-sharing […]
Why Health Plans Must Have Next-Gen CAPS Technology for Digital Transformation
Sagnik Bhattacharya Chief Operating & Product Officer HealthEdge Core Administrative Processing Systems (CAPS) operate as the brains behind a health plan’s business. These systems are […]
SnapLogic Launches Amazon HealthLake Accelerator to Store, Share Patient Data
What You Should Know: – SnapLogic, a provider of Enterprise Automation, today launched the SnapLogic Accelerator for Amazon HealthLake, which enables healthcare and life sciences […]
Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?
Karen Conway, VP of Healthcare Value, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have […]
13 Areas to Improve Electronic Prior Authorization
In January 2022, ONC issued a Request for Information (RFI) that sought public input on the ONC Health IT Certification Program and how it could […]
Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Will Transform Outcomes
Tom James, Healthcare Cloud Services and Solutions Leader at 2nd Watch You don’t need another story urging you to “get to the cloud.” That’s old […]
Interoperability: A Powerful Solution to Staffing Challenges Continues to be Overlooked
Cynthia Morton, Executive Vice President for the National Association for the Support of Long-Term Care (NASL) Therasa Bell. Co-founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer at […]
Solving health IT labor gaps with strategic interoperability partnerships
By leveraging aligned interoperability partners, health systems can alleviate the inevitable pressures of IT personnel shortages and the strains that labor fluctuation puts on organizational […]
Reproducibility, Trust, and the Digital Laboratory
Kevin Vigilante MD, MPH EVP, Chief Medical Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton George Plopper, Sr. Lead Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton Over the last decade, […]
How will the interoperability rule transform value-based care?
The intent of Interoperability and Patient Access regulations is not to wash your hands off them. A more empowering viewpoint is that they give organizations […]
Marching Forward: The Path to Operationalize TEFCA
On January 18, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the TEFCA Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), The Sequoia Project, released […]
Surescripts webinar highlights: Interoperability progress depends on how you look at it [Sponsored]
Register to view a webinar, sponsored by Surescripts, highlighting progress made on interoperability and what’s needed to improve and expand it.
Intermountain Partners with VC Firm General Catalyst on Innovation
What You Should Know: – Intermountain Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with digital health venture capital firm General Catalyst that will involve jointly exploring opportunities […]
Luma Health & Change Healthcare Partner to Develop Solutions to Optimize Patient Journeys
What You Should Know: – Luma Health, a digital health company streamlining patient-provider communications announced a strategic partnership with Change Healthcare, a healthcare technology company […]
Philips and Prisma Health Partner to Drive Enterprise Interoperability & Imaging Solutions
What You Should Know: – South Carolina’s largest health system Prisma Health adopts Philips software solutions for patient monitoring and enterprise imaging, helping to drive […]
How Automation Can Help with Healthcare’s “Messy” Data Problem
Dr. Bob Lindner, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of veda Efficient data processing and data sharing are essential functions across healthcare—from patient care, clinical research, […]
The largest pharma company in Europe calls for interoperability
Ehab Youssef, area head of Europe North at Roche Pharmaceuticals, tells us why European countries need interoperability to ensure a more effective overall European healthcare […]
Next Generation of Risk Adjustment: Uniting Health Plans and Providers
Shahyan Currimbhoy, VP at Edifecs Aaron Fulner, Sr. Director at Edifecs Up until now, risk adjustment has been addressed as a mechanism to accurately represent the overall risk profile of […]
San Diego Health Connect Takes a Big LEAP Over the Barrier of Consent Management
Editor’s Note: On April 14, 2022 at the ONC Annual Meeting, San Diego Health Connect will be demo-ing their project in the exhibit hall. How […]
Diligent Robotics Secures $30M for Robots to Assist Hospital Staff with Routine Tasks
Diligent Robotics co-founders, Dr. Andrea Thomaz and Dr. Vivian Chu pose with Moxi, a robot they created to help take the stress off of nurses […]
MedTech: Transforming Healthcare with Medical Imaging AI
Travis Richardson, Chief Strategist at Flywheel Healthcare providers and their patients stand to benefit dramatically from AI technologies, thanks to their ability to leverage data […]
Epic Selects Lyniate for Integration within Epic Garden Plot Offering
What You Should Know: – EHR leader Epic has selected Lyniate, a provider of healthcare data interoperability, for integration within its new Garden Plot Software as a Service (SaaS) model for independent medical […]
Digital Health Disconnect Creates Unnecessary Roadblock to Patient Engagement
Aaron Kaufman, EVP at Carenet Health By all accounts, the last two years have accelerated consumer adoption of digital tools for managing nearly every aspect of our […]
Why Telemedicine Isn’t A Temporary Fix — It’s The Future
Doug McDonald, Director of Technology in the Office of the CTO at Extreme Networks In March 2020, many office workers packed up their bags under […]
What The Finance Industry Can Teach Healthcare About Digital Transformation
Mike Serbinis, Co-Founder and CEO of League The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns […]
CPQ: Optimizing MedTech Operations and Sales to Accelerate Cash Flow
Chris Lekander, VP of Delivery, Wilco Source The lead-to-cash process in most B-to-B organizations––particularly those operating in the medical device industry––is often complex and lengthy. […]
Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient […]
Meditech exec says Google Health collaboration will bring search’s simplicity to the EHR
After announcing plans to collaborate at HIMSS, Google Health and Meditech executives explain why bringing search capability to the EHR helps to not only aggregate […]
HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and […]
Health interoperability with purpose: TEFCA’s impact & (maybe) the beginning of the end of impersonal care
Recently, the ONC revealed its most ambitious healthcare interoperability effort to date with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). It outlines a common […]
ONC’s Health Information Technology Advisory Committee: A Year in Review and a Look Ahead
The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) plays an important role in ONC activities and objectives. Required by the 21st Century Cures Act, the HITAC […]
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. […]
MEDITECH Expands Expanse Ambulatory to Independent and Physician-Owned Practices
What You Should Know: – MEDITECH today announced the availability of Expanse Ambulatory in independent and physician-owned practices, without requiring an Expanse EHR in the […]
Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future
Jen Goldsmith, President Tendo Systems Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the […]
Patient Data & Decentralized Web: The Key To A Healthier Future?
Jonathan Bingham – Janeiro Digital, CEO Interoperable data and IT systems in healthcare has long been an enigma – many have tried to tackle the […]
Medisafe Launches Digital Document Exchange to Speed Up Medication Approvals
What You Should Know: – Today, Medisafe, a leading digital therapeutics and patient engagement company launches its new Digital Document Exchange module to streamline the […]
Why 2022 will be a pivotal year for interoperability and the patient experience
We’ve been through the beginning phases of interoperability and are solidly transitioning from walking to running. I believe 2022 will be a pivotal year that […]
From HITECH to SMART-on-FHIR: Where does the healthcare app ecosystem stand?
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 […]
Pharmacy Interoperability Challenges and Needs Under the 21st Century Cures Act
Jason Ausili, Pharm.D., Chief Clinical Officer, FDS Amplicare, now part of EnlivenHealth™ As interoperability provisions from the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) enter their […]
3…2…1…TEFCA is Go for Launch
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement is now available. Within the health information technology (health IT) world, few things have been as elusive as […]
2022 ISA Reference Edition Now Available
Today we are pleased to ring in the new year with the release of the 8th annual update of the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference […]
2022 predictions: Simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing
The CEO of Surescripts believes we are living in an unpredictable world coupled with an explosion of innovation that aims to solve challenges like the […]
Consequential convergence: The intersection of interoperability and value-based care
Interoperability has risen to the forefront, empowering providers and payers with the information they need to implement value-based care models.
CareCloud Launches All-New Interoperability and Data Exchange Solution for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know: – CareCloud, Inc., a provider of healthcare technology solutions for medical practices and health systems nationwide launches CareCloud Connector, a next-generation interface and […]
Innovaccer valued at $3.2B in most recent fundraise
The company, which is building a cloud-based platform to help health systems pull health records together, recently closed a $150 million funding round.
Medicare needs more than digitization – it needs unification
It is time for Medicare to move past legacy data storage and look to the incorporation of healthcare data platforms that provide beneficiaries with direct, […]
FHIR: The Three S’s of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
Daniel Riedel, SVP of Strategic Services at Copado We are in a potential Health Renaissance and innovating at break-neck speed. However, with that acceleration as […]
21st century cures: What ONC and CMS final rules mean for your ambulatory care practice
Since ONC is the certifying body for EHRs, providers must be prepared to transition to a new “Cures Edition” version of its software before the […]
What’s holding health plans back from gains in interoperability? Technical readiness
Months after the new interoperability rules took effect, health plans still struggle to develop a cohesive enterprise data strategy and infrastructure.
AI-driven innovation in life sciences: Data as data should be
Your AI applications are only as strong as your data. This is why Elsevier strives to make data not only align with FAIR usability principles […]
Information Sharing After the 21st Century Cures Act
When President Obama signed the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) into law in 2016, it marked a significant shift in health policy and […]
What we heard: Health Interoperability Outcomes 2030
What should 2030 look like because of interoperability? That’s what we asked our stakeholders back in May 2021. And boy, did you all deliver! We […]
UnityPoint Health, b.well Connected Health partner to implement digital-first consumer strategy
The Iowa-based health system will leverage b.well Connected Health’s platform and services to enable patients to view and share their health data. The platform will […]
Insiteflow raises $2.3M to solve workflow interoperability
Seeing challenges in making third-party solutions actionable, Anthony Gerardi co-founded a startup to make it easier to view and pull more clinical solutions into the […]
Aligning with Standards Development Community: The New Cycle for Standards Version Advancement Process
As part of ONC’s ongoing charge to coordinate across federal and industry stakeholders, we determined it was necessary to adjust our Standards Version Advancement Process […]
Healthcare at the Crossroads: Value-Based Care and Interoperability
Michael Pattwell, Principal Consultant, Value-Based Care at Edifecs Amid the difficulties of the last year, a bright spot has emerged that may provide a strong […]
4 Trends in Senior Care Critical for the Future of Interoperability
Jeremy Delinsky, Chief Operating Officer of Devoted Health When America’s seniors went to their first doctor’s appointment, they couldn’t have imagined that their health history […]
Why patient control of their own data is the key to health equity
It will take a combination of legislation to protect patient data privacy by governing communication between apps and the power of innovation and the free […]
Google, Microsoft execs: AI should be designed to support, not replace, clinicians
As Google and Microsoft compete over their cloud capabilities for healthcare, both companies are touting tools to make clinicians’ lives easier by streamlining documentation or […]
DirectTrust Acquires Assets of SAFE Identity to Support Healthcare Interoperability
What You Should Know: – DirectTrust today announced it has acquired the assets of SAFE Identity (including Trust Framework), an industry consortium and certification body […]
Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack
Jeff Fuller, Vice President, Analytics Solutions at CipherHealth For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding […]
What payers need to know about CMS’ Payer-to-Payer Data Exchange requirement
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 […]
Lack of IT integration left public health officials swimming upstream
At the start of the pandemic, the lack of integration between IT systems was painful, said Dr. Anne Zink, chief medical officer for the state […]
By LEAPs and Bounds: Newest Round of Awardees Seek to Advance Health Equity and Research
Each year since 2018, new Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT awardees join an entrepreneurial group dedicated to developing and scaling technological breakthroughs. […]
Smile CDR Raises $20M to Expand FHIR-Driven Data Liberation Platform for Interoperability
What You Should Know: – Smile CDR Inc. (Smile CDR), a Toronto-based health data storage and integration company, announced it has raised $20 million in […]
Arizona, Colorado HIEs merge
CORHIO and Health Current, based in Colorado and Arizona respectively, have formed a new regional organization. Called Contexture, the organization aims to advance interoperability across […]
Let’s Meet in the Metaverse
By KIM BELLARD I really wasn’t expecting to write about the Metaverse again so soon, after discussing it in the context of Roblox last March, […]
What Google Cloud learned about interoperability from Mayo Clinic
Google is piloting its healthcare data engine, a tool intended to build longitudinal patient records and pull in data from multiple sources. Early work with […]
Opportunity Trifecta: ISA, SVAP and Draft USCDI Version 3 Feedback Period Now Open
On the heels of the release of United States Core Data for Interoperability USCDI Version 2 (USCDI v2), ONC has also opened a single, synchronized […]
Google Cloud goes head-to-head with AWS with tool to standardize health data
Both cloud competitors are offering solutions that use FHIR to pull together and standardize health data from disparate sources. Google recently unveiled a solution based […]
A founder built a platform after bringing together her daughter’s health records. Now, employers are offering it as a benefit.
B.Well Connected Health, a startup that brings together patients’ health records and helps them navigate their benefits, recently raised $32 million in funding. CEO Kristen […]
Does ONC’s Certification Program Affect Interoperability? New Evidence and Implications
ONC is excited to share findings from newly published research that sheds light on the impact adoption of 2015 Edition certified health information technology (health […]
ONC’s new interoperability standards support SDOH, sexual orientation data
The ONC has released the new version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability, a set of standards to enable seamless data exchange nationwide. […]
ONC Chief: Data standardization key to integrating public health into info-sharing infrastructure
The Covid-19 pandemic shone a harsh light on how siloed the public health infrastructure is, and the ONC is working along with other government agencies […]
Interoperability now needs to go beyond EHRs to include the larger digital health ecosystem
The next step in the evolution of interoperability will involve examining data flows in digital healthcare, according to panelists at the American Telemedicine Association’s annual […]
Health Affairs Article Points to HIO Readiness & Engagement in TEFCA
The best way to gather information is by going straight to the source. That’s exactly what ONC did to learn and assess the state of […]
Former athenahealth CEO reemerges with new health IT startup
His newest venture, Zus, was created with the idea of making it easier for fledgling healthcare startups to piece together their own technology systems. The […]
ONC Health IT Framework for Advancing SDOH Data Use and Interoperability
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship and age that affect a wide […]
Jonathan Bush’s Second Venture Zus Health Launches with $34M for Health Data Interoperability Platform
What You Should Know: – Former athenahealth founder and CEO Jonathan Bush, today announced the launch of Zus Health (“Zus” pronounced Zoos like the […]
Apple adds feature to share health data with doctors, loved ones
Apple is adding a feature that would allow people to share their health data with trusted contacts, such as their doctor or a family member. […]
UCSF, Philips Partner to Enhance Digital Patient Experience & Interoperability
What You Should Know: – Today, Philips announced its collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop technology that will enable a more streamlined […]
Anthem, Epic strike data exchange partnership
The EHR giant will integrate its payer platform with the insurer’s operating system to facilitate two-way data exchange with providers. Through this integration, the organizations […]
Health Interoperability Outcomes 2030
One of the fun parts about working at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is that in addition to our […]
ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule Sets Path for New Healthcare Industry Standards
Time flies! It has been over a year since ONC’s Cures Act Final Rule was first released and since then ONC has been busy advancing […]
Lyniate Acquires Datica Integration Business to Deliver Interoperability
What You Should Know:– Lyniate announced the acquisition of Datica Integrate and the subsequent launch of Lyniate Envoy, the company’s new cloud-based data integration solution. – Powered by the […]
Why the interoperability final rule is the first step toward patient-centric care
With patients being granted easier access to their data, and thus greater and more informed agency over their health, we are finally opening the door […]
Dr. Micky Tripathi on interoperability, health equity & how his work with VCs will help him lead the ONC
In a wide-ranging interview, the National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Micky Tripathi discussed his career and how his varied experiences have expanded his perspective. […]
Top 3 Ways to Justify Interoperability Spend & Power Your Physician Alignment Strategy
Dr. Peter S. Tippett, CEO of careMESH For decades, interoperability has been a dirty word for hospitals and health systems. No matter how much they […]
Sync for Genes Phase 4 Demonstrations Selected
Today, ONC is pleased to announce two demonstration sites selected for Sync for Genes Phase 4. Since its launch in 2017, the ONC Sync for Genes project has […]
Innovation, Interoperability Accelerated Healthcare Digital Transformation in 2020
What You Should Know: – In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital transformation of healthcare accelerated in 2020 with increased adoption of interoperable tools to support […]
What Will It Take for Hospitals to Survive the Pandemic?
Dr. John Frownfelter, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer at Jvion In 1852, Mercy Hospital & Medical Center opened as Chicago’s first chartered hospital. In May, […]
PHINs: Addressing the Fundamental Flaws that Have Broken Healthcare
Brad Bostic, CEO, hc1 The fundamental problem with healthcare can be summed up in one sentence: We expect healthcare services that cater to our individual […]
Enforcement landscape for HHS data-sharing rules is hazy, experts say
The HHS’ new interoperability and information blocking rules have been in effect for one week, yet how they will be enforced is unclear. But there […]
Bridging the digital divide: How providers can continue to reach the digitally excluded
If we don’t prioritize solutions now, the healthcare digital divide may present more widespread national and international challenges.
Will a new administration spark a renewed focus on value-based care?
While the Covid-19 pandemic has strained the healthcare industry, this administration has the advantage of being able to leverage everything we have learned over the […]
Dear President Biden: A Healthcare interoperability wishlist for 2021
Your administration needs to establish a mandate requiring health systems that have data sharing capabilities to share their Covid-19 data in the next eight months. […]
Mastercard, b.well Team Up on Digital Health Patient ID Verification for Interoperability
What You Should Know: – b.well Connected Health today announced a partnership with Mastercard to provide individuals a simpler and more secure way to prove their identity online […]
COVID Exposed The Dire Need for Real-Time Healthcare Data Sharing
Birju Shah, Head of Product for Uber Health & Communities Nick Jordan, Founder and CEO, Narrative In a world where technology and Big Data can provide […]
Unite Us Nabs $150M, Reaching $1.6B Valuation to Address Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know: – Unite Us, the tech company creating coordinated care networks nationwide, has just announced a $150M Series C round of funding led […]
Health Gorilla Nabs $15M to Expand FHIR-based APIs for Digital Health
What You Should Know: – Health Gorilla raises $15M to scale its FHIR-based API solutions for digital health and expand into new markets. – Health […]
How to Optimize Your Healthcare Practice with Advanced Technology Solutions
Terrence D. Sims, President of Strategic Growth and Marketing, Raintree Systems As COVID-19 continues to influence patient behaviors and causes providers to reevaluate how they […]
Innovaccer Reaches $1.3B Valuation, Launches Health Cloud Platform
What You Should Know: – Innovaccer closes Series D round of growth capital bringing Innovaccer at a total valuation of $1.3 billion. – In addition, […]
11 Best Practices of a Successful Care Model Transformation Plan
Moha Desai, Principal, Healthcare Strategy & Transformation Health systems across the country will require a plan to react to government deep spending cuts and revenue […]
Health Plans Must Go Beyond the ONC Mandate and Prioritize Member Experience
Minal Patel, CEO of Abacus Insights Laurent Rotival, SVP, Strategic Technology Solutions & CIO, Cambia Solutions We are all frustrated when there’s a glitch with […]
New HIE consortium to develop data-sharing solutions, initiatives amid pandemic
Six health information exchange organizations have come together to establish a new consortium. The group aims to share technology infrastructure, create new solutions and advocate […]
6 HIEs Form New Consortium to Drive Population Health Improvements Via Data Sharing Interoperability
What You Should Know: – A group of six health information exchanges (HIE) announced today their formation of the Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability […]
Pandemic spotlights utility of HIEs for population health, cost savings
As COVID-19 continues to surge in Los Angeles, LANES is enabling free-flowing data insights – medical, behavioral and socioeconomic ─ to close information gaps and […]
Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2020 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
What You Should Know: – Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the eleventh consecutive year in the Best in KLAS 2021 Software & Services report, released […]
It’s that time of year – payer Groundhog’s Day
At this time every year payers employ teams of people whose full-time job is calling a doctor’s office, requesting information, and waiting weeks for the […]
Health data can help us close the cultural awareness and trust gaps exposed by Covid-19
When healthcare leaders trust each other enough to share essential information on their patients — either through their own decisions or through forced policy change — […]
CHIME-KLAS Report Reveals 10 Key EMR Interoperability Trends
What You Should Know: – New CHIME-KLAS interoperability report reveals steady progress in some areas related to interoperability and leaps forward in others. – A […]
From Analog to Digital Neurology: 3 Steps to Better Inform Patient Care
Dr. Nandor Pinter, Director of Neuroimaging Research, DENT Institute Dr. Murray Gillies, General Manager of Digital Cognitive Dx Venture, Philips The field of neurology is […]
Standards Beyond the Clinic: Capturing Patient Health Data to Advance Precision Medicine
Does the neighborhood I live in affect my health? How am I going to be able to see the specialist without a car? Can I […]
Onyx, AMA Innovations Form Collaboration to Build FHIR-Based Messaging
What You Should Know: – Onyx and AMA Innovations partner to rethink ways FHIR-based messaging technology can improve links between healthcare and community-based organizations. – […]
Intelligent Automation of the Revenue Cycle: How an Integrated Platform Approach Yields Financial Results
Sean Barrett, Senior Vice President, Product and Digital Transformation, R1 RCM Healthcare provider networks are experiencing enormous pressure to manage financial margins and invest in […]
To Beat COVID-19, We Need A Modern Approach to Public Health Data
Ed Simcox, Chief Strategy Officer at LifeOmic The COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken 270,000 American lives to date, has shined a light on another crisis […]
Philips Acquires Medical Device Integration Platform Capsule for $635M
What You Should Know: – Philips announces the acquisition of Capsule, a leading vendor-neutral Medical Device Integration Platform with a software-as-a-service business model – The […]
Transitioning from Traditional to E-Fax: How Healthcare Communications are Transforming Post-COVID
Michael Morgan, CEO of Updox The majority of industries have decreased or eliminated their use of the traditional fax machine over the past decade, including […]
ONC Issues First Health IT Standards Bulletin Discussing USCDI & SVAP
What You Should Know: – The ONC released the first ONC Standards Bulletin, a new communication tool ONC will use to periodically update the healthcare […]
NeuroFlow Secures $20M for Tech-Enabled Behavioral Health Integration Platform
What You Should Know: – NeuroFlow raises $20M to expand its technology-enabled behavioral health integration platform, led by Magellan Health. – NeuroFlow’s suite of HIPAA-compliant, […]
Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems
Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches […]
How CMS has made progress on healthcare interoperability
Seema Verma is administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This article was co-authored with Alexandra Mugge, deputy chief health informatics officer at […]
Labs on FHIR: Sharing Genetic Test Results
The use of genetic testing is becoming increasingly routine in patient care. For example, tests are available to check newborns for genetic disorders, screen would-be […]
How health plans can mitigate the bumps along the road to implementing CMS’ interoperability rules
Back in 2019, the Proposed Interoperability rules were released from ONC and CMS, and the […]
M&A: TigerConnect Acquires Hospital Middleware Solution Critical Alert
What You Should Know: – TigerConnect has announced an expansion in their suite through the acquisition of Critical Alert, a leading provider of enterprise-grade middleware […]
Meaningful Use of Genomics Requires Informatics Beyond EMRs
Assaf Halevy, Founder and CEO of 2bPrecise Electronic medical records (EMRs) are widely expected to serve as a cornerstone technology that drives the delivery of […]
12 Telehealth & Virtual Care Predictions and Trends for 2021 Roundup
Dr. Paul Hain, Chief Medical Officer of GoHealth Telehealth is Here to Stay in 2021 Prior to the pandemic, telehealth was a limited ad-hoc service […]
How to Capitalize on Digital Health Momentum in 2021
Adam Sabloff, Founder and CEO of VirtualHealth As we re-examine the healthcare system in the wake of the pandemic, we are continually identifying opportunities to […]
Behind the scenes: How health systems, EHR vendors will give patients unprecedented access to their data
Health systems and EHR vendors have been working for months to comply with the ONC’s final rule on interoperability and information blocking that goes into […]
CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity
Scott Galbari, CTO, Lyniate Drew Ivan, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Lyniate Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last […]
30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General […]
5 Post-Acute Care Industry Trends to Watch in 2021
What You Should Know: – Healthcare technology company Forcura names the five most significant trends for the post-acute care industry in 2021. The post-acute care […]
Making EHRs more like a butler by serving the needs of clinicians
Healthcare leaders can continue to wait for the government to enact and enforce IT changes that may or may not serve the needs of clinicians. […]
Regence, MultiCare Health System to Deploy HL7 Da Vinci Member Attribution List for Value-Based Care Arrangements
What You Should Know: – Regence and MultiCare ink first-in-the-nation value-based care partnership to deliver improved health outcomes at lower costs. Health insurance provider Regence […]
Diameter Health gains $18M in new funding
With the new funds, the health data optimization and interoperability company will invest in product development. The latest funding round was led by Centene Corp.
For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications
Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for […]
Highmark Inks 6-Year Partnership with Google Cloud to Power Living Health Model
What You Should Know: – Highmark Health signs six-year strategic partnership agreement with Google Cloud to transform the health experience for patients and caregivers through […]
Mayo Clinic Researchers to Validate Interoperability of Encrypted Algorithms and Training on Encrypted Data
What You Should Know: – Mayo Clinic researchers are collaborating with TripleBlind on next generation algorithm sharing and training on encrypted data. – TripleBlind’s solution […]
Microsoft Deploys COVID-19 Vaccine Management Platform
What You Should Know: – Microsoft launches a COVID-19 vaccine management platform with partners Accenture and Avanade, EY, and Mazik Global to help government and healthcare […]
With 2021 fast approaching, there’s more in store for APIs in healthcare
Our recent virtual event, Accelerating APIs in Healthcare: A Year in Review and Momentum for 2021, featured more than 1,000 viewers and 40 speakers with […]
Despite COVID-19: Providers Should Not Lose Sight of MIPS Compliance
Courtney Tesvich, VP of Regulatory at Nextech When 2020 began, no one anticipated that complying with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)—the flagship payment model […]
Elation Health Nabs $40M for Clinical-First Solution to Power Independent Primary Care
What You Should Know: – Elation Health, which provides an easy-to-use and affordable clinical technology platform for more than 7 million independent primary care clinicians […]
Coming up on Day 2 of MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine
The second day of INVEST Precision Medicine includes presentations by healthcare companies in the Health IT track of the Pitch Perfect startup pitch contest, a […]
Amazon Launches HealthLake for Healthcare Orgs to Aggregate & Structure Health Data
What You Should Know: – Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon HealthLake, a new HIPAA-eligible service enables healthcare organizations to store, tag, index, standardize, […]
5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers
Shanti Wilson, Consultant, Freed Associates As if 2020 couldn’t be any more challenging for healthcare providers, new federal rules on interoperability and patient access, granting patients […]
CommonHealth App Connects to 230 Health Systems to Share Health Data – including COVID Test and Vaccine Status
What You Should Know: – CommonHealth has connected to 230 health systems in the United States, allowing patients to gather, manage and share their health […]
What it will take to make health data easier to share
New interoperability rules hold promise in making it easier for patients to access and share their health data. But there’s still a long way to […]
Google Cloud Launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program
What You Should Know: – Google Cloud launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program to help healthcare organizations achieve healthcare data interoperability. Today, Google Cloud launched the […]
COVID-19: How Can Payers Prepare for Mandates and Support Pandemic Relief Efforts
Elizabeth Bierbower, Former President of Humana’s Group & Specialty Division Healthcare can achieve optimum efficiency when patients are at the center of care. When patients […]
KLAS: Epic, NextGen, Cerner Best at Making Outside Patient Data Usable
What You Should Know: – New KLAS report finds acute and ambulatory care EMR vendors Cerner, Epic and NextGen are best at making outside patient […]
To Solve Healthcare Interoperability, We Must ‘Solve the Surround’
Peter S. Tippett, MD, Ph.D., Founder & CEO of careMesh Interoperability in healthcare is a national disgrace. After more than three decades of effort, billions […]
Innovaccer Launches Member Engagement Solution to Scale-Up Digital Transformation Efforts with Payers
What You Should Know: – Innovaccer launches member engagement solution for healthcare payers to drive improvement in healthcare cost and quality boosts member satisfaction and […]
Human API raises $20 million to bring health records into one place
Human API, a startup making it easier for consumers to share their health data, raised $20 million in funding. The company plans to use the […]
VA Announces First Cerner EHR Go-Live at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center
What You Should Know: – Cerner today announced the historic and successful first deployment of a modern EHR at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, […]
Humana Taps Cohere Health to Modernize Prior Authorizations for Musculoskeletal Treatment
What You Should Know: – Cohere Health partners with health insurer Humana to modernize the prior authorization process for musculoskeletal treatment across 12 states. – […]
5 Trends Driving The Future of Healthcare Real Estate in 2020 & Beyond
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 […]
CommonWell Enables Payer Access to Nationwide Interoperability Network
What You Should Know: – CommonWell Health Alliance enables payer access with the addition of a new service provider, DataFile Exchange to support the […]
Apple Rolls Out Health Records on iPhone to the UK, Canada
Today, Apple announced the Health Records feature within the Health app is now available for users in the UK and Canada to securely view and […]
Test and Trace: A three point plan to regain public trust
Whichever way you look at it, many countries across the globe are experiencing a rise in COVID-19 cases coinciding with the start of the Autumn/Winter […]
Getting Beyond the Telehealth ‘Stop-Gap’ Mentality
Roland Therriault, President, InSync Healthcare Solutions Since COVID-19 emerged as a major health threat, virtual care has taken off. As many as 46% of patients […]
Fresenius Kidney Care Rolls Out National Data Exchange Network
What You Should Know: – Fresenius Kidney Care, the dialysis services division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, rolled out CommonWell health data exchange services to […]
How Low-Code Solutions Reduce Headaches for Healthcare CIOs
Ruby Raley, VP of Healthcare and Life Sciences at Axway Twenty years ago, technology consultants started advising CIOs to build less. That’s when the movement […]
What payers need to know about FHIR
Although the deadline for compliance with the FHIR patient access rules is fast approaching, most payers are not prepared,
Accounting for the Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Andy Aroditis, CEO, NextGate The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a medical crisis. Since the highly contagious disease hit American shores in early 2020, the […]
ONC to study physician use of health IT, interoperability
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will update data measuring physician use of health IT systems, as well as physician burden […]
Terminology standards bridging gaps between health systems during COVID-19
The clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are varied, and patients are known to have rapidly changing signs and symptoms that must be tracked with laboratory testing. […]
Advancing Standards: Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP) and Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA)
On the heels of the new USCDI ONDEC Submission System launched in July, ONC is giving you even more opportunities to provide feedback and input […]
Dignity Health Management Services to Leverage Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know: – Dignity Health Management Services (DHMSO), the largest health system in the state of California to transform their network health data […]
Riding the digital wave through COVID-19
One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says […]
Why International Expansion Must Remain a Priority for Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, MEDITECH
What You Should Know: – How the top US acute EHR vendors, namely Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, and MEDITECH (+85% share of US acute market in terms of revenues), have progressed on international […]
Bridge Connector Lands $25.5M to Expand Healthcare Integration Platform
What You Should Know: – Bridge Connector raises $25.5 million in Series B funding to advance interoperability layer for healthcare organizations as demand for integrated […]
Interoperability for improved care coordination amid COVID 19
How healthcare providers can leverage interoperability across the care continuum for improved care coordination and patient empowerment.
ONC to put $2.5M in CARES Act funding into health information exchanges
HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator will allocate $2.5 million in CARES Act funding to health information exchanges to support public health uses of information […]
Lumeon Lands $30M to Expand Care Pathway Management Platform
What You Should Know: – Lumeon, the leader in care pathway orchestration announced it has raised $30M in Series D funding to extend the reach […]
Match without a flame: Why interoperability mandates still require operational, use-case specific platforms
Whether it’s solving a gap in care problem, or a payer/doctor connectivity problem there will always be individual use cases where multisided platforms (or health […]
Michael Seres: The power of a patient
Michael Seres was an entrepreneur, patient advocate, husband and father of three. He died on 30 May 2020, in California, US, of a sepsis infection. […]
Addressing Covid-19 is a data problem – here’s how the data community is harnessing healthcare data to solve it
Data can allow us to improve our public health response to the pandemic, but only if we enable data scientists with the right tools to […]
Redox Adds Data on Demand, Single Sign-On Access to Interoperability Platform
What You Should Know: – Redox adds data on demand and single sign-on access features to its cloud interoperability platform to help to simplify the […]
How Times of Crisis Spur Needed Change in Healthcare Delivery
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to change healthcare operations in the world, foundational systems are being adapted to meet these new demands. Sometimes it takes […]
Telehealth and COVID-19: Overcoming New Challenges for Providers and Payers
Telehealth has quickly transformed the healthcare industry. Rather than scheduling an appointment, waiting up to a few weeks, and going to a doctor’s office or […]
The real time health system: adapting healthcare to the new normal
A healthcare system in which stakeholders share, adopt and apply medical knowledge in real time enables improved care, accelerated workflows, streamlined business processes and a […]
USCDI ONC New Data Element and Class Submission System Now Available
The wait is finally over! The ONC Cures Act Final Rule went into effect on June 30, 2020, and since its release one of the […]
How ADT-Based E-Notifications Can Enable Better Safety for COVID-19 Patients
Jay Desai, CEO & Co-Founder, PatientPing As COVID-19 continues to impact the country, providers across the continuum face new challenges delivering care and ensuring safety […]
Virtual Behavioral Health Could Reduce Costs, Improve Patient Outcomes, Report Finds
What You Should Know: – A new Accenture report called “Breakthrough Behavioral Health Access: Think Virtual” finds that the use of virtual behavioral health could […]
Failing States of health – How broader collaboration can bring us closer to the future of health
Without cross-border co-operation the potential of personalised health cannot be realised, acccording to Bogi Eliasen, director at the Health Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and […]
Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR to Empower Health Teams
What You Should Know: – Microsoft released the public preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), the latest update to the […]
Top 3 Priority Areas for Healthcare CIOs in the Age of COVID-19
What You Should Know: – In the age of COVID-19, healthcare CIOs cite interoperability, cybersecurity, and operationalizing SDOH data priorities as top three priority areas, […]
GYANT Raises $13.6M for AI-Enabled Digital Front Door Solution to Drive Patient-Doctor Engagements
What You Should Know: – GYANT raises $13.6M in Series A funding for AI-enabled digital front door solutions to drive meaningful patient-doctor engagement. – The […]
HHS Taps Fenway Health as Pilot Site for Precision Medicine Project
What You Should Know: – Fenway Health has been selected as the pilot site to participate in the Advancing Standards for Precision Medicine (ASPM) project. […]
Allscripts, Microsoft Ink 5-Year Partnership to Support Cloud-based Sunrise EHR, Drive Co-Innovation
What You Should Know: – Allscripts and Microsoft sign a five-year partnership extension to support Allscripts’ cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record and drive co-innovation. – […]
PCOR Coordinated Registry Network for Women’s Health Technologies
ONC recently released results from the Coordinated Registry Network for Women’s Health Technologies project, a collaborative effort conducted with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]
The C-CDA Scorecard Continues to Improve C-CDA Implementation across Health IT Settings
ONC is excited to announce the Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Scorecard 2.0. The updated Scorecard includes Health Level Seven International (HL7) approved best practices, […]
The barriers to health data exchange that are exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic
Let’s invest in an interoperable health data system that connects all providers, hospitals, nursing homes, insurance companies, state and local governments, public health and patients […]
The rights to privacy and citizen protection – A conflict between privacy and the public good?
Privacy remains an important determinant of how technology is deployed, even during these times of COVID-19, argues HIMSS’ chief clinical officer Dr. Charles Alessi.
