Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

LCA Vantage Healthcare Corporation Partners With Biostrap Providing The World's First FHIR Compliant Electronic Health Record System Integrated With Continuous Biometric Monitoring

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Friday, November 19, 2021

The partnership between LCAV and Biostrap will revolutionize health care for generations to come.

Key Points: 
  • The partnership between LCAV and Biostrap will revolutionize health care for generations to come.
  • LCAV and Biostrap will be the first to provide continuousand non-invasivemonitoring of patients' biometrics in accordance with new CMS, FHIR and FDA regulations and policies.
  • Biostrap has a dedicated team of health care professionals, data scientists, engineers and hardware specialists with a proven ability to deliver complex, integrated digital health solutions.
  • For more information about Biostrap, visit www.biostrap.com
    LCA Vantage Healthcare Corporation (LCAV) is an innovative research and technology company accelerating health care into the next century.

Former National Coordinator Don Rucker, MD, Joins 1upHealth as Chief Strategy Officer

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Dr. Rucker joins 1upHealth as Chief Strategy Officer, the next step in his career-long commitment to making healthcare efficient and affordable.

Key Points: 
  • Dr. Rucker joins 1upHealth as Chief Strategy Officer, the next step in his career-long commitment to making healthcare efficient and affordable.
  • The 1upHealth platform computes on FHIR data and connects customers to an ecosystem of payers, providers, app developers, patients, and biopharma.
  • As National Coordinator at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), he led the development and issuance of ONC's 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule which supports patient access and interoperability of health data.
  • Gartner designated 1upHealth a "Cool Vendor in Healthcare Interoperability" for its FHIR platform.

Wellsheet Collaborates with Horizon to Provide Clinicians with a Single View of Key Data and Insights within their EHR Workflow

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

“Horizon is working to put the power of actionable data into the hands of New Jersey’s doctors and hospitals to help them improve care quality, better the patient experience and lower the overall cost of care for our 3.7 million members,” said Joseph O’Hara, Horizon’s Director of Healthcare Marketplace Innovations. “Through our collaboration with Wellsheet, clinicians will have the ability to access a wealth of patient data available through Horizon’s HIE --- HealthSphere – so their care can be informed and coordinated by a full, 360-degree view of a patient’s clinical history. Wellsheet’s interface connects the breadth of Horizon data directly to New Jersey clinicians at the point of care,” O’Hara said.

Key Points: 
  • The companies are combining Health Information Exchange (HIE), EHR, and claims data into a single view on Wellsheets predictive clinical workflow platform.
  • Horizon will support Wellsheets expansion initiatives in the region to advance the shared goal of bringing the joint solution to clinicians.
  • Wellsheets interface connects the breadth of Horizon data directly to New Jersey clinicians at the point of care, OHara said.
  • Horizon with an enhanced ability to deliver clinical and claims data and insights directly within provider workflow.

SkyPoint Cloud announces launch of SkyPoint Predict - predictive customer data insights product

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --SkyPoint Cloud (SkyPoint), the privacy-first customer data platform that enables consumer and healthcare brands to build deeper relationships with their customers, today announced the launch of SkyPoint Predict, predictive customer insights powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Key Points: 
  • PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --SkyPoint Cloud (SkyPoint), the privacy-first customer data platform that enables consumer and healthcare brands to build deeper relationships with their customers, today announced the launch of SkyPoint Predict, predictive customer insights powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
  • SkyPoint unifies fragmented customer data from multiple systems and applications into comprehensive "customer 360" profiles, and provides business and technology users with the tools to secure, govern, and access that data.
  • With today's launch of SkyPoint Predict, the platform automatically enriches customer profiles with dynamic and constantly-updated predictive behavioral insights.
  • SkyPoint unifies customer data from across disparate data sources to deliver rich, comprehensive customer profiles enabling businesses to understand their customers while safeguarding their customers' data.

A Buyer's Guide for Specialty EHR Platforms

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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

"EHRs should become the driver of personalized care for patients and data-driven insights and guidance for clinicians and operators."

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  • "EHRs should become the driver of personalized care for patients and data-driven insights and guidance for clinicians and operators."
  • Net Health provides specialty EHRs to over 24,000 facilities, including SNFs, ALFs and CCRCs, outpatient clinics, home health and hospice agencies and hospitals.
  • When EHRs don't integrate with other platforms within an organization, they can create obstacles and frustrations for users.
  • Specialty platforms that seamlessly integrate with an organization's general EHR, such as Cerner, Epic or Allscripts, are vital to ensure efficiency.

Lyniate Introduces Rapid, a Healthcare API Gateway

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Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Rapid is a purpose-built healthcare API gateway and manager designed to help health teams create and safeguard APIs, including Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based APIs like those required by the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Rule .

Key Points: 
  • Rapid is a purpose-built healthcare API gateway and manager designed to help health teams create and safeguard APIs, including Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based APIs like those required by the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Rule .
  • Lyniate Rapid is easily compatible with Lyniate Rhapsody and Lyniate Corepoint , the companys flagship integration engines.
  • With features like API security, a built-in FHIR server, audit logging, and monitoring, this healthcare API gateway protects vulnerable health information from outside threats and reduces the time-consuming and error-prone process of configuring and managing each API.
  • About Lyniate: Lyniate partners with healthcare organizations around the globe delivering cutting-edge solutions to address interoperability challenges.

ConsejoSano Welcomes Health Tech Veteran Josh Siegel as New CTO

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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --ConsejoSano, a health equity-focused engagement company specializing in culturally and linguistically-aligned outreach, has tapped Josh Siegel, a veteran health IT executive as its new chief technology officer.

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  • NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --ConsejoSano, a health equity-focused engagement company specializing in culturally and linguistically-aligned outreach, has tapped Josh Siegel, a veteran health IT executive as its new chief technology officer.
  • Siegel has been focused over the last 20 years on leading teams tackling healthcare's biggest challenges by building, securing, and scaling cloud software platforms.
  • "Josh's wealth of knowledge in all things health IT will be invaluable as he leads our technology efforts to find solutions to address health inequities."
  • ConsejoSano, a health equity-focused engagement company, partners with health plans and providers to deliver an insight driven, personalized member experience through culturally and linguistically aligned consumer preferences.

Edifecs Announces Acquisition of Talix

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Monday, September 13, 2021

Edifecs, Inc., a health information technology solutions company, announced today that it has acquired Talix , an information technology company that provides risk and quality solutions to healthcare payers and providers.

Key Points: 
  • Edifecs, Inc., a health information technology solutions company, announced today that it has acquired Talix , an information technology company that provides risk and quality solutions to healthcare payers and providers.
  • The more we learned about Talix, the more impressed we were with the company, their leadership team, and their patent-awarded technology, said Venkat Kavarthapu, CEO of Edifecs.
  • Talix has deep NLP capabilities in the industry with a custom-built taxonomy of over a million health concepts.
  • The merger of these companies enables Edifecs to offer a more complete risk adjustment solution from insight, to intervention, to submission, said Sunny Singh, Edifecs founder and Chairman of the Board.

EQS-News: No blood spilled: Netcetera serves the Austrian Red Cross with the MeinBlut app

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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

When the Austrian Red Cross in Upper Austria wanted to digitalise their services for blood donation, they found a perfect partner - Netcetera.

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  • When the Austrian Red Cross in Upper Austria wanted to digitalise their services for blood donation, they found a perfect partner - Netcetera.
  • The UX team used online tools to brainstorm the app design and map the user journey, creating wireframes in Overflow.
  • This led to high customer satisfaction, with contacts at the Austrian Red Cross declaring that they were very happy to have chosen Netcetera as a partner.
  • It has been downloaded over 11,000 times since then and has already enabled over 3,700 users to receive their blood test results.

1upHealth Announces Free Baseline Testing for Health Plans to Determine if their Patient Access FHIR® API is Successfully Connecting as Required by CMS

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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

BOSTON, Aug. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- (HIMSS Booth #3269) 1upHealth , a trusted FHIR platform for health data interoperability, announced today that it is offering health plans free baseline testing to determine if their Patient Access application programming interface (API) is connecting to third-party developers as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS) Rule.

Key Points: 
  • BOSTON, Aug. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- (HIMSS Booth #3269) 1upHealth , a trusted FHIR platform for health data interoperability, announced today that it is offering health plans free baseline testing to determine if their Patient Access application programming interface (API) is connecting to third-party developers as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS) Rule.
  • Unfortunately, many health plans are still struggling with the implementation of FHIR APIs since this is all new to them," said Ricky Sahu, CEO and Founder of 1upHealth.
  • One of the regulations is the Patient Access Rule, which is intended to give patients more control over their healthcare data.
  • Gartner designated 1upHealth a "Cool Vendor in Healthcare Interoperability" for its FHIR platform.