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Oracle Health announced plans to launch a next-generation EHR platform in 2025, incorporating advanced cloud and AI capabilities. This new EHR will feature Oracle's clinical AI agent, voice-activated navigation, and Health Data Intelligence, which integrates patient data from over 300 sources to enhance clinical workflows and improve patient outcomes. The platform aims to replace traditional EHRs, which often dictate rigid workflows, with a more dynamic system that allows for personalized care plans. Oracle Health emphasizes that the new EHR is a complete reinvention rather than an upgrade of the previous Cerner system. Additionally, Oracle plans to become a Qualified Health Information Network to facilitate standardized data sharing across the healthcare ecosystem. Executives at Oracle also unveiled new cloud applications to improve patient management and streamline front-office operations, reinforcing the company's commitment to enhancing healthcare accessibility and data utility while addressing interoperability challenges in the industry.

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Last week, Bob Bryan and John Valutkevich explored the evolving world of predictive Decision Support Interventions (DSI) in certified Health IT. The ASTP-ONC’s §170.315(b)(11) requirements are set to reshape how compliant EHR systems enhance predictive DSI capabilities and foster innovation in healthcare AI. Key insights from the session include: 📌 Breaking down the (b)(11) standards. 📌 Risk management considerations. 📌 Compliance strategies for AI vendors. Catch up now to see how these changes could impact the future of healthcare AI. https://loom.ly/gEie0Hk #HealthIT #PredictiveDSI #HealthcareAI #EHR

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Access critical patient information with Epic EHR solution! Get real-time information mentioned below to boost the healthcare organization - Previous diagnosis Prescribed medication Appointments General health information Read the blog to learn A to Z about Epic integration. https://zurl.co/8scn

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Interoperability needs major improvements to enable seamless chart corrections after #data sharing. Read more from Stephanie Murray (Zygarlicke), Senior Director of Epic Services, in this Healthcare IT News article: https://hubs.li/Q030bz5y0

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What real impacts are AI having in the world of healthcare? Our Senior Director of Continuous Improvement and Automation, John Hataway, recently weighed in for this piece in Healthcare IT Today. Read the whole article here: https://bit.ly/45R76gN #RevenueCycleManagement #Savista #HealthcareAI #HealthcareITToday

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Oracle's new AI-first EHR platform is poised to disrupt the market as we know it. Our role in supporting this healthcare transformation? Helping providers maximize value from historical clinical and financial data, and shortening the transition time between systems.   As the only healthcare data archivist in the Oracle Partner Network, Legacy Data Access will support organizations transitioning to Oracle's new EHR. 1. Our direct integration with Oracle Health EHR platforms ensures complete clinical history preservation and integration, while maintaining the highest standards of safety and physician satisfaction. 2. We leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (#OCI), guaranteeing enterprise-grade security and compliance throughout the transition process. 3. LDA LongView(TM) – a first-of-its kind solution built within the Oracle Health co-development program – provides a comprehensive, longitudinal view of patient history directly within the EHR environment.   With proven expertise across all major healthcare platforms, we're ready to support your organization's journey to Oracle's next-generation EHR capabilities.   Contact us to learn how we can help make your transition seamless or visit our website to schedule a consultation. [Links in comments👇 ]   #HealthcareIT #EHR #OracleHealth #HealthTech   https://lnkd.in/e-WWDu5Y

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This is an old news item, but still very relevant I think. I have noticed a lot of 'isolated incidents' happening around the country as a result of sub-optimal EPR implementations. This time last year, there was a news article that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had got so fed up with its under-performing #EPR, that it had renegotiated its contract with the vendor to include penalties related to performance management, specifically reliability, responsiveness and interoperability. (I wonder if the new contract is publicly available Neil Evans, MD ?) While this is a $10Bn contract, UK trusts looking to contract with an EPR vendor should still try to include penalties for under performance, and most importantly, safety issues. Especially those that directly affect patients such as the one at Durham (https://lnkd.in/eyQePGip). https://lnkd.in/e6GC4HhC #patientsafety #digitalhealth #EHR #electronichealthrecord #EMR #clinicalsafety #humanfactors #implementationsafety Sam Shah Shane Tickell Simon Swift Adrian Byrne FBCS CHCIO Dr Temi Akitikori Dilshan Arawwawala Jenny Sutcliffe Stuart Harrison CEng FIET MIEEE Apira Ltd Alan Brown Mohammad Al-Ubaydli Masood Ahmed Dr Patrick Lester, PhD 🩺 Dr Gyles Morrison MBBS MSc Dr Penny Kechagioglou Helen Hughes Jonathan Hazan Kiran D Shetty Lisa Goldstone Patient Safety Learning

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📊 When was the last time you optimized your EHR? If it’s been 3–5 years, it’s time to take a closer look. We help healthcare organizations maximize the value of their EHR investments with tailored optimization strategies and Epic Refuel projects. 🚦Signs you need optimization: 🔹 High clinician dissatisfaction 🔹 Workflows that don’t match organizational needs 🔹 Frequent help desk tickets Our seasoned consultants ensure your system supports your team—not the other way around. Ready to unlock the full potential of your EHR? #EHROptimization #EpicRefuel #HealthcareEfficiency #PatientCare

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When selecting ambient speech technology, healthcare organizations are prioritizing EHR #integration and usability, with top picks including Nuance Healthcare and Abridge. https://hubs.ly/Q02Wyqs10 #HealthIT #EHR #AmbientSpeech #interoperability #GenAI

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FHIR is starting to cover more and more financial data, which is great for making the financial side of healthcare more navigable for everyone. The question is: is it enough? The CARIN Alliance and the Da Vinci Project have been paving parallel paths to enable data sharing between payers, providers, and patients, but from different angles. 🔹 The CARIN Alliance took inspiration from CMS Blue Button 2.0, focusing on giving beneficiaries access to claims information—primarily from a financial perspective. Their Consumer-Directed Payer Data Exchange (CARIN IG for Blue Button®) solution aims to extend this to commercial payers, ensuring better financial data exchange. 🔹 The Da Vinci Project tackled the challenge from a clinical viewpoint. Their Payer Data Exchange (PDex) solution aligns with US Core profiles for FHIR Release 4, supporting clinical data sharing between payers, providers, and third-party apps, as required by the CMS Interoperability Final Rule. 🩺 Key Differences: What's interesting is that while both solutions have overlapping goals, they differ in their focus. 🔹 CARIN IG for Blue Button® focuses on financial claims data, using FHIR ExplanationOfBenefit (EOB). 🔹 PDex covers a broader set of clinical data using US Core profiles on FHIR R4 resources and even goes beyond US Core by offering guidance on additional elements like provenance, dispensed medications, medical devices, and mapping USCDI V1 information to FHIR profiles. 📊 Is it enough? The move towards FHIR implementation guides for interoperability is definitely a positive step, but the explanation of benefits and US Core are really minimal requirements, not full ones. For a lot of financial technology, more is required. What is missing from the picture of FHIR for financial healthcare data?🗣️ #HealthcareInteroperability #PayerDataExchange #FHIR #HIT #HealthTech

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Learn why effective EHR integration is pivotal for streamlined operations and improved patient care. Swipe through to uncover the challenges and transform your approach. For More: https://lnkd.in/ghUDJMej #EICPNC #HealthcareInnovation #EHRIntegration

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Transforming healthcare beyond EHRs... A recent article from Healthcare IT Today, "Oracle is Tackling More Than Just EHR Challenges", shines a light on something every healthcare leader should be considering - partnering with a provider that delivers more than basic solutions. As a consultancy which specializes in helping organizations make better use of their Oracle Health EHR systems, we’ve seen how Oracle’s approach goes far beyond what we traditionally expect from an EHR provider. They’re tackling workforce management, supply-chain optimization, and enabling Real-Time Healthcare Systems (RTHS), all while providing the robust EHR functionality healthcare organizations rely on. Here are a few standout takeaways from the article that resonate with the work we do alongside healthcare organizations every day: ➡ Workforce solutions - Oracle’s Talent Marketplace simplifies contingent staffing and provides tools for upskilling your team, helping combat the workforce shortages so many organizations face. ➡ Supply-chain innovation - With tools like the Inventory Shortage Workbench, hospitals can predict stockouts and redistribute supplies quickly, ensuring resources are always available where they matter most. ➡ Real-time decision support - Oracle’s RTHS leverages predictive, real-time data to empower leadership teams with situational awareness, streamlined workflows, and faster, smarter decision-making. Healthcare is complex, and the challenges your organization faces don’t come in silos. Oracle’s ability to connect clinical, operational, and administrative functions means they’re elevating healthcare IT into a true strategic enabler. If your organization is ready to unlock these capabilities, we encourage you to explore how Oracle can help you not just keep up, but thrive. #OracleHealth #HealthcareIT #EHROptimization #HealthcareLeadership

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Argonaut's 2024 "FHIR Write" initiative launches today, focused on continuous glucose monitoring! We're streamlining standards-based integration of CGM data into EHRs to support collaborative diabetes management. Huge thanks to Redox, Rimidi, Rhapsody, Sensotrend, and Tidepool for helping me and Brett Marquard come up to speed ahead of the project launch. I also want to share my personal pre-launch exploration to learn about CGM: 1. Got a CGM prescription and began tracking my blood sugar. 2. Mapped my CGM readings to FHIR Observation and Device resources. 3. Calculated key metrics like "time in range" as FHIR Observations 4. Created a visualization PDF based on the Ambulatory Glucose Profile, and wrapped this in a FHIR DiagnosticReport 5. Published same visualization as an interactive web view 6. Packaged all this up in a SMART Health Link for secure, structured data sharing + built-in visualization This SMART Health Link represents my past 120 days of glucose history, updated automatically and covering all core data elements described in the Diabetes Technology Society (DTS)'s iCoDE data set: ** Josh's glucose SHLink: https://lnkd.in/g2TQb5tN ** Anyone with the SHLink can access the structured FHIR resources behind the visualization. In fact, the viewer itself is a SHLink client that knows how to render the data it finds. For a behind-the-scenes tour of the data set, see https://lnkd.in/gYpGuGEQ This proof of concept shows how FHIR can streamline CGM data flows. It can give clinicians structured data for analysis AND summary reports for record-keeping. I should note that this consumer-mediated direction is not necessarily the approach we'll focus on in this year's Argonaut project -- but it has been a great learning exercise for me. Check out the project and code: https://lnkd.in/gY2nwv2h #healthcare #diabetes #data #FHIR #ArgonautProject A final thought: Even with an "all green" glucose report, there's still much to learn from analyzing specific responses like post-meal glucose spikes. Right now, such subtle signals may be outside the standard clinical focus, but it highlights the wealth of potential insights hidden within raw data.

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From modernizing codesets and #USCDI v4, to ePrior Auth and bulk #FHIR data, the #HTI-2 rule builds on #ONC’s prior efforts to improve processes across #payer, #provider, #publichealth, and more. While the use cases are wide ranging, the entire industry benefits from improved #quality and access to #healthdata. Great news for Tenasol, as we process #clinicaldata of all shapes and sizes, so we are excited to see ONC’s continued efforts to raise the bar for #healthIT and #interoperability.

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Maxim Abramsky, AVP Product Management, Edifecs is featured in a recent article in Healthcare IT Today regarding automated #priorauthorization. Maxim states, "The main obstacle is a big disparity in terms of data formats, ease of access, and interoperability between Provider (EHR) and Payer (Interop, Care Management) systems. One of the biggest obstacles is the heavy lift of getting providers and payers on the same technology base. Tailwind here is the CMS-0057F mandate that at least forces Payers to implement the same technology. I think it will take the industry 3-5 years for automated prior authorization to be pervasive." To read the full article, visit https://lnkd.in/gUakvfbZ #CMS #PriorAuthorization #interoperability

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