Interoperability

How a Digital ‘Baseball Card’ Supports Care Management

March 8, 2023 - The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) highlights care management as a fundamental means of managing the health of defined populations and supporting the triple aim of healthcare. AHRQ and the Center for Health Care Strategies define care management as a patient-centered, team-based framework designed to help patients and their support networks more effectively manage...


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Exploring Decentralized Architecture Networks in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

Efficient and secure health data interoperability is a top priority for providers, payers, and other healthcare stakeholders, but enabling interoperability remains a major challenge for many organizations across the country. To support...

3 Use Cases for Blockchain in Healthcare

by Shania Kennedy

Blockchain is a type of distribution ledger technology (DLT) that allows data to be stored and shared in a decentralized manner. In healthcare, data storage and sharing challenges are common because health information must be both...

FHIR Interoperability Basics: 4 Things to Know

by Editorial Staff

As health data interoperability becomes an increasingly pressing concern for providers, developers and vendors are paying a great deal more attention to the data standards that will enable seamless,...

Sharing Medical Imaging Data to Enhance Care Quality, Efficiency

by Jessica Kent

Medical imaging data has always played a critical role in healthcare delivery, allowing researchers and providers to collect meaningful information for better decision-making. Since the dawn of...

Why Interoperability is Key to Social Determinants of Health Efforts

by Jessica Kent

In care delivery today, it’s well understood that a patient’s social determinants of health have a profound impact on both physical well-being and healthcare spending – sometimes even...

Amazon Launches Service for Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

by Jessica Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service that aims to support interoperability standards and further drive the use of big data analytics in...

ONC Projects Aim to Standardize SDOH Data for Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) is working to standardize the collection of social determinants of health data to help advance precision medicine and inform new treatments. Information...

One-Third of Young Providers Overwhelmed by Patient Data, Analytics

by Jessica Kent

Thirty-five percent of younger healthcare professionals are overwhelmed by digital patient data or are unsure about how to use patient data and analytics to inform care, according to a global survey...

ONC: Data Standards, Security Key to Precision Medicine Success

by Jessica Kent

ONC is working to advance precision medicine research by supporting projects that improve health data standards, adopting policies that support data security and privacy, and promoting data sharing...

Data Sharing Standards Needed to Address Patients’ SDOH

by Jessica Kent

Federal and state agencies should develop standards for data sharing and interoperability in order to better address patients’ social determinants of health (SDOH), according to a new report from...

Can Healthcare Overcome Its Past Pitfalls to Leverage Genomic Data?

by Jessica Kent

Genomic data and precision medicine hold the potential for more targeted therapies, allowing clinicians to gain a deeper understanding of patients’ health and wellness. Combined with clinical,...

45% of ORs Will Be Integrated with Artificial Intelligence by 2022

by Jessica Kent

Thirty-five percent to 45 percent of operating rooms (ORs) in the US and beyond will become integrated with artificial intelligence and virtual reality technologies by 2022, according to a recent Frost...

Big Data, Artificial Intelligence Key to National Cancer Control

by Jessica Kent

In order to establish a US National Cancer Control Plan, government organizations will need to access big data, including social, clinical, and behavioral information, as well as artificial...

AMA Calls for More Data Privacy in Proposed Health IT Rules

by Jessica Kent

The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on CMS and ONC to implement stricter data privacy controls in their health IT proposals. In comments submitted to CMS, AMA responded to the...

Mount Sinai Advances Innovation with New Chief Data Officer Role

by Jessica Kent

Mount Sinai has created a new chief data officer position to advance data-driven research, discovery, and patient care. The institution has named Andrew Kasarskis, PhD as executive vice president and...

Lack of Data Standards Hinders Patient Matching Improvements

by Jessica Kent

Healthcare executives believe that a lack of data standards and costs of solutions are major impediments to improved patient matching, according to a report from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Healthcare...