Interoperability
Hospitals become more humane environments as room alarms and beeps are replaced by interoperable apps carried by nurses.
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<p>The American Immunization Registry Association's Sabrina Matlock, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' Sarah Finley, and Oracle Health's Kristin Glaza discuss their partnership, along with a preview of their HIMSS24 discussion about vaccine interoperability.</p>
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PACs need the interconnectivity and IT used by hospitals, says Longevity's Heidi Wold, who is scheduled to speak at HIMSS24.
This includes the biggest bang for the buck tasks such as prior authorization and complex claims, says Venkat Kavarthapu, CEO of Edifecs.
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) gives a level of interoperability that can't be met any other way and takes in groups such as payers that have yet to fully participate, says ONC National Coordinator Micky Tripathi.</span></span></span></p>
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<p>CDS Hooks is a standard for web service that uses FHIR to represent the patient data, but it also has a standard to provide clinical decision support recommendations, says Dr. Howard Strasberg, vice president of medical informatics at Wolters Kluwer, who with Robert Jenders, professor of Medicine at UCLA will be speaking at HIMSS24.<br />
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<p>CMMI has released the Enhancing Oncology Model as a payment pilot around care for seven types of cancers, says Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe).</p>
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Impacted payers need to send prior authorization decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests and seven days for standard requests.
<p>The last mile is ensuring the data is being used for patient care, says Dr. Holly Miller, CMO at MedAllies, who also works on the Sequoia Project's Data Usability Taking Root initiative.<br />
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<p>The Digital Health Indicator is a good assessment to know what’s been achieved and what needs improvement, says Dr. Chien-Tzung Chen, superintendent of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital.<br />
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