HL7 releases FHIR 4
Health Level Seven announced on Wednesday that a new version of its interoperability specification is now available.WHY IT MATTERSMany in the healthcare industry have been eagerly awaiting the fourth...
View ArticleSharing, structure, standards: How California plans to do precision medicine
As the quantities of personal health data go from being measured in gigabytes to terabytes, a precision medicine action plan from the California Office of Planning and Research looks at the state of...
View ArticleHIMSS19 Champion of Health: Rasu Shrestha
As it works to foster ongoing global health improvement, HIMSS is marshalling the talents of its most important resource: its own members. In Orlando in February, select HIMSS19 Champions of Health –...
View ArticleRush to become first 5G hospital system in U.S.
Mobile data is about to get a lot faster at the Rush System for Health in Chicago. The hospital system has partnered with AT&T to become what it says is the first in the nation to use a...
View ArticleExperian, Change Healthcare collaborating on new identity management platform
Change Healthcare and Experian Health have joined forces to develop new technology for the accurate identification of patients across care settings.Officials from both companies said the platform will...
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9th Annual Intelligent Health Pavilion to highlight HIMSS19
HIMSS19 will feature the 9th Annual Intelligent Health Pavilion, hosted by the Intelligent Health Association. The pavilion focuses on connected technologies, vetted by a committee of experts, and how...
View ArticleONC to Congress: EHR adoption is widespread, but health IT progress is still...
Despite the fact that 96 percent of hospitals and 78 percent of physician practices have adopted certified health IT — too many hurdles still stand in the way of progress, according to ONC’s “Annual...
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Vocera to focus on clinician well-being and IT interoperability at HIMSS19
Clinical communications vendor Vocera will be focusing on a variety of trends at HIMSS19. Two big ones for the developer of voice technology will be elevating the well-being of care teams and patients,...
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Your Playbook for Driving Digital Security in Healthcare
Sponsor: KeyfactorPrimary topic: Privacy & SecurityTopic: InteroperabilityPrivacy & SecurityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
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The Developer Innovation Lab offers hands-on lessons at HIMSS19
One of the highlights of the upcoming HIMSS19 Global Conference & Exhibition will be the Developer Innovation Lab, a specialty pavilion designed to help spur innovation in the field of health IT....
View ArticleONC releases Interoperability Standards Advisory Reference 2019
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has issued its latest report on interoperability standards, following the close of comments last October 1. ONC officials said they received...
View ArticlePew: Here's what APIs need to succeed for healthcare
Application programming interfaces are all the rage in healthcare and just about every other industry undergoing digital transformation. And with the release of Health Level 7’s Fast Health...
View ArticleInfor to tout FHIR-based data management tech at HIMSS19
At HIMSS19 data management IT vendor Infor will be discussing a nearly complete Cloverleaf 19.1, the centerpiece of its Integration Suite with components that offer support for FHIR and API...
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HIMSS19 Interoperability Showcase eyes standards-based health ecosystem
Interoperability is one of the most important and most vexing issues facing health IT today. And once again HIMSS is addressing it at its Global Conference and Exhibition with the HIMSS19...
View ArticleGAO's latest report on patient matching: It's still not easy
The whole point of electronic health records is to facilitate the sharing of patient data, but that is still difficult, not just because interoperability hasn't been fully achieved, but also because...
View ArticleHL7 gives a glimpse of FHIR 5
Health Level 7 International on Monday offered a peek at its roadmap for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, aka FHIR 5.WHY IT MATTERS FHIR is widely viewed as holding great promise for...
View ArticleHow connecting data leads to better health services
Primary topic: Health Information Exchange (HIE)Primary Topic: Connected HealthAdditional Topics:...
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At HIMSS19, Federal Health IT Pavilion focuses on collaboration
The Federal Health IT Pavilion at HIMSS19 is a place on the Exhibit Hall floor where attendees can interact with federal government agencies that have robust health IT portfolios.The theme of the...
View ArticleAmerican Hospital Association, other groups call for widespread effort to...
More and more healthcare organizations are urging a broader swath of the industry to get involved driving interoperability. The latest is a Jan. 22 report from seven leading national hospital...
View ArticleKelly Cronin leaves ONC after 15 years
After 15 years at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Kelly Cronin, director of interoperability for health care transformation and the first ONC employee, will be transferring to...
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