Interoperability is moving ahead, but major health systems and hospitals in large population centers must ensure they don’t leave their smaller and more rural counterparts behind.

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Former U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra will moderate a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET on eConsent and interoperability with DocuSign, Velatura, Mid-State Health Network and Southwest Michigan Behavioral Health.

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The lack of adoption of interoperability tools by healthcare providers is a complex issue that requires a multi-faceted approach

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The always-on, connected health system is not a distant moonshot, but today’s reality.

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As the healthcare industry grapples with various challenges, from workforce shortages to complex coding intricacies, embracing AI can empower revenue cycle professionals to envision a future with reduced denials, optimized revenue, and fortified financial health.

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Provider network teams need a better way to streamline healthcare delivery and amplify provider satisfaction. Unlocking value with provider network operations means a forward-looking, fresh approach and the right tools that deliver in four essential areas:

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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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Right-now value could come from extractive AI, a tool that gives organizations the power to put even handwritten text sent via images or PDF by digital fax into a structured data play.

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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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TEFCA’s goal is to establish a universal floor for interoperability across the country by developing the infrastructure model and governing approach for users in different networks to securely share basic clinical information with each other.

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The healthcare industry must prioritize the development and implementation of universal tools that can efficiently navigate, interpret, and derive value from the growing wealth of health data.

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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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Public health is heavily dependent on collecting and sharing accurate patient data. Standards for data collection and interoperability can move the needle toward better health data, but it is up to healthcare organizations to take ownership of their data quality by following best practices and adopting technologies that can detect and eliminate bad patient data before it is disseminated.

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A webinar sponsored by Intelligent Medical Objects April 11 will explore how payers are meeting the needs of the 2016 21st Century Cures Act when it comes to providing unfettered access to structured medical data for members.

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Sandy Vance, HLTH’s senior adviser, Interoperability, offered a preview of the interoperability pavilion at ViVE and what she hopes to achieve at the conference this year.

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Panelists at a recent healthcare conference expressed optimism about the automation technology that health plans, pharmacy benefit managers and providers can adopt to facilitate real-time data sharing. They said that such technology has potential to improve medication adherence, reduce costs and save time for both providers and payers.

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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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More than half of technology leaders at the country’s top 50 health systems by net patient revenue said they’re investing more money into interoperability initiatives in 2023 than they did last year, according to a new report. Participating in health information exchanges is a key way that health systems strengthen their interoperability strategy.

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Healthcare could learn from the data improvement strategies that other industries have implemented in the past decade, a new report said. For example, the military, aerospace industry and aviation sector have all developed ways to standardize data, decrease silos and make information more accessible between organizations.

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Crescendo Health recently launched with a $3.4 million initial investment. The startup provides clinical researchers with software tools that make it easier to gather study participants’ longitudinal health data.

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The next generation of HIEs must think beyond the transfer of information and explore how they can use real-time health data to improve population health outcomes, according to the CEO of Nebraska’s HIE. A key way that her HIE is seeking to improve population health outcomes is through a program it launched six months ago to improve equity in maternal and postpartum care through identifying high-risk patients and sharing real-time information with providers.

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A panel of healthcare data experts recently broke down some of healthcare’s most common buzzwords at HLTH. While the experts agreed that many industry professionals still struggle to grasp the true denotations of words and phrases like “interoperability” and “reimagining healthcare,” the panelists said these terms can be quite meaningful once they’re unpacked.

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We’ve been talking about improving patient satisfaction and creating a more patient-centric care experience for years. But we’ll never get there if we continue to be focused on transactional healthcare, which is where our efforts toward interoperability have traditionally been drawn.

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Value-based care has provided a platform and a mechanism, where for the first time, health plans, providers and employer groups are sitting around the table with their sleeves rolled up, ready to collaborate and partner as opposed to sitting across the table with their arms crossed and their heels dug in.

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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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There’s no doubt that a full rollout of Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA will save lives and improve patient care and outcomes. Challenges remain, however, centered on how to maintain data privacy and security as the number of electronic connections increases exponentially among data networks.

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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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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 technology transformation and growth.

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The intent of Interoperability and Patient Access regulations is not to wash your hands of them. A more empowering viewpoint is that they give organizations a chance to champion the patient and make healthcare better.

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Register to view a webinar, sponsored by Surescripts, highlighting progress made on interoperability and what’s needed to improve and expand it.

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