Interoperability on FHIR
HL7 is pleased to announce that Release 3 of FHIR has just been published. The FHIR community invested a huge amount of work in this release. How is FHIR being used in healthcare today?
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HIE Rundown 3-31-17
Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
New White Papers to Download
Take advantage of our newest resources from leading vendors in the industry. Learn more by downloading these white papers and eBooks on patient payments, hospital contact centers, hospital paging, and Alternate Payment Models (APMs).
#StateHIT Highlights
The 2017 State Healthcare IT Connect Summit took place this week. This annual event is produced by Healthcare IT Connect In partnership with NASCIO, APHSA, and the eHealth Initiative (eHI).
Take These Six Steps to Alleviate Patient Anxiety About Data Security
By D’Arcy Gue – Not every patient admitted to your hospital will know that healthcare promises to be the most frequent target of hacking efforts in 2017. But many will. They may be among the 21 percent of patients who withhold information from their doctor for fear of data breaches.
ONC CQM Issue Tracker for eCQM Draft Measure Packages for 2017 Annual Update
CMS invites vendors and stakeholders to review and provide feedback on draft eCQM measure packages that include logic and header changes for eCQMs under consideration for CMS quality reporting and payment programs.
Talent Tuesday: Now Hiring!
Welcome to Talent Tuesday. Check back each week as we highlight job opportunities and tips from the healthcare IT recruitment specialists at Pivot Point Consulting. Today’s opportunity is an ERP Lawson Extract Consultant.
Health IT’s Role in Patient Safety, Patient-centered Care, and Learning Health Systems
By Sharon Arnold PhD – Determining whether digitized information’s enormous power can improve patient care is at the root of many serious conversations about health information technology (IT).
Patient Portals: Build Them Well and They Will Come
By D’Arcy Gue – Let’s face it, there will always be a segment of your patient population that just isn’t interested in using a patient portal. But with so much of life now conducted online, the good news is that robust design and usefulness will engage most patients.