The pressures for data exchange and interoperability have converged on the concept of a health data utility. At the DirectTrust conference, Angie Bass, Chief Strategy Officer at Velatura, describes this as a “unifying force”…
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One of the scariest things in healthcare right now is having your organization breached. While systems are sometimes breached through more traditional approaches to hacking, the most common breaches today generally occur when hackers…
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The February cyberattack against the Change Healthcare clearinghouse not only compromised patient data but left health care providers in a financial crisis. Within 48 hours of the attack, another clearinghouse called Availity set up a…
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At the recent MEDITECH Live conference, I had a chance to meet hundreds of members of the MEDITECH community and hear from many of the top executives. In case you missed it, be sure…
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The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article is the fifth in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.
With the public comment period now closed, the newly…
At the recent DirectTrust conference, Ken Romo, Global Director at ETHERFAX, shares with us that they are not just a fax company: He describes them as a cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company…
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healthKERI provides secure data exchange by allowing endpoints to verify themselves and maintain their own secret keys, removing the overhead of trusted third parties and their certification processes from data exchange. CEO and Founder…
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Bridging the data gap between acute care and post-acute care is a significant challenge. However, more and more evidence suggests that sharing the right information from acute care with post-acute care settings, like Skilled…
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Concord Technologies, which started in 1996, focuses on secure document exchange, counting three of the world’s five largest healthcare payers as customers. In this video at the DirectTrust conference, we hear about the use…
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The following is a guest article by Adam Seguin, CEO at Vocantas
Staffing shortages and inefficient scheduling processes continue to challenge hospitals and healthcare facilities globally. The increasing demand for healthcare services, coupled with strain…
