What should health interoperability look like in less than a decade?
Earlier this year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, crowdsourced visions for the future of interoperability in healthcare.
More than 700 submissions have been compiled and summarized online at Health Interoperability Outcomes 2030. Among the answers...
To satisfy regulatory requirements, healthcare organizations must store patient data digitally in the form of electronic health records or electronic medical records. As noted in the journal Heredity, moving beyond simple storage to the actionable application of Big Data offers “significant potential” for healthcare, but significant challenges remain.
Among the most common are data fragmentation, high costs and increased complexity...
Some 91 percent of healthcare providers globally rely on virtual care capabilities, with most of them implementing telehealth during the pandemic, according to a 2021 survey from Arlington Research commissioned by Kaspersky.
As telehealth develops into a key component of hybrid care delivery, building and strengthening patients’ trust is a critical part of informing a robust virtual care program....
Data analytics is evolving in healthcare as clinical teams find new ways to apply artificial intelligence to improve patient care through actionable insights. This trend is also leading to an increased focus on improving overall population health.
Dr. Atul Butte, chief data scientist for University of California Health and HealthTech 2021 health IT influencer, explains how data analytics has evolved in healthcare,...
Patients are not the only ones insisting on better and more seamless interactions with their providers. Healthcare organization also want to improve the patient experience, and many are hoping to achieve that outcome through digital transformation.
Though it may be a challenging journey for healthcare systems that have long relied on traditional fee-for-service models, the experiences from digital-first companies offer...
The pandemic was a catalyst for digital health adoption, including in the senior care space. Older adults used video calls to connect with families during lockdowns, and telehealth allowed seniors to meet with their doctors from home. Today’s seniors are more tech savvy than in the past, and this is likely to impact the way they interact with healthcare...
In the healthcare world, security and privacy issues are extremely critical, especially in terms of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance. Although cloud computing can alleviate some of the stress regarding this topic, regulations to secure Protected Health Information (ePHI) are very strict, and complying with them can be very difficult. We suggest you use the...
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HL7 (Health Level Seven) is a standard for exchanging health information between medical applications. This standard defines a format for the transmission of health-related information. Information sent using the HL7 standard is sent as a collection of one or more messages. Each message transmits one record or item of health-related information. Examples of HL7 messages include patient records...
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By convention, a standard segment grammar notation is defined to provide a convenient way to indicate the segments that can be included in a particular type of HL7 message. Many vendors use this segment grammar notation to specify what segments may be included with each type of HL7 message that they send. In the standard segment grammar notation, segments...
We’re extremely proud to have hosted part one of our four-part Iguana ‘Did You Know?’ webinar series. In yesterday’s webinar, we explored some of Iguana’s hidden tools and features that play a crucial role in optimizing the development, administration, and workflow design processes. Listen to iNTERFACEWARE’s own Solutions Architect, Lianne So, as she outlines common EMR integration workflows...
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