Creating the first FHIR® Integration Platform as a Service offering Many healthcare organizations are working hard to improve interoperability and bring data into compliance with HL7® FHIR® standards. However many of the data interoperability “solutions” on the market...
Track 1: Building the Infrastructure for Better Value-Based Primary Care CMS recently announced its new Making Care Primary (MCP) model, a voluntary initiative set to launch in July 2024 among selected participants in eight states. As of September 2023: “CMS is...
Why is healthcare data interoperability so difficult to achieve? The technical staff currently needed to manage healthcare data exchange to meet interoperability standards and requirements is extensive, burdensome, and costly. A streamlined FHIR® data solution could...
Why does FHIR® matter so much in the modern healthcare data exchange? A conversation with VirtualHealth product team leaders about the different reasons why FHIR®matters in the modern healthcare data exchange. There are a number of reasons why the HL7® FHIR® standard...
Why do organizations want and need a FHIR® solution? The FHIR® standard is important because it allows the developers to build standardized browser applications that enable the user to access clinical data from any healthcare system regardless of the operating systems...
What is FHIR? Why does FHIR matter in healthcare data management? The HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources 1) standard defines how healthcare information can be exchanged between different computer systems regardless of how it is stored in those...
Nearly a decade ago, a Forbes contributor referred to data silos as “a medical tragedy.” Jump forward 10 years and we still have data silos. And the very real human consequences they create such as suboptimal health outcomes related to missed or delayed diagnoses,...
According to a 2019 report from the Department of Health and Human Services, strengthening patient engagement topped the list of care delivery strategies reported by the highest-performing Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)....
Medical management platforms can help accountable care organizations (ACOs) meet core goals related to providing highly coordinated, value-based care. For example, software with automated workflows and data centralization capabilities helped ACOs increase primary care...
How has healthcare data interoperability changed in the last few years? Are data silos still a core challenge? Disconnected data negatively impacts payers and providers across the care continuum, impacting everything from healthcare experiences and health outcomes to...