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How Regulatory Actions in healthcare advance healthcare interoperability and what it means for your practice

In today's podcast, we are discussing a number of regulatory rules and updates that have taken place in 2024 and how they will impact your practice. We discuss the most recent regulatory actions proposed by CMS (Centers for Medicaire and Medicaid services)and ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health information Technology).  These actions are in support of continuing to advance interoperability.  There is clear momentum towards more comprehensive healthcare interoperability.  Regulartory entities have developed technical and operational policy standards and frameworks that have enabled the foundation for a National Clinical Exchange. This is the basis for how all healthcare ecosystem participants should develop, operate and use the network.  We also review the HTI 1 and HTI 2 (health data, technology, and Interoperability)  rules – 1 a rule and 2 a proposal but both are designed to improve interoperability.    Last, we discuss TEFCA  as a version 2 was released in 2024. TEFCA (trusted exchange framework and common agreement) is a commons set of principles is designed to enable nationwide exchange of electronic exchange of medical records across disparate health information networks (HINS). If you are new to interoperability and you are looking for a crash course on how these rules impact our practice, this is a great podcast to listen to you. If you are aware of interoperability and simply looking for a credible update on how these rules impact your practice, please listen to this most recent update.  One thing we are certain of, waiting to be a part of electronic healthcare interoperability is not an option for any healthcare practice.

Spend Less Time on Medical Record Management: Here is How

Today’s clinical information exchange processes are a blend of manual, semi-electronic using various  tools cobbled together to “make it work” for each clinical information need. Even with rising EMR adoption and mostly rising interoperability rates, want to guess the number of way healthcare exchange medical records in 2023? 90% + still rely on fax!    Components of a modern medical record management solution should address these challenges and integrate with your EMR making the experience for your staff seamless.   The right solution should be able to track and maintain histories about all requests; securely send and receive clinical information via FAX, National and Local HIEs; search, review, organize and export desired clinical information and come with advanced filtering capabilities to quickly eliminate superfluous information and be able to focus on what is needed. Learn more about what solutions exist in the market and what you can do about it.

Navigating the Data Maze: Addressing Challenges in Medical Chart Preparation

Most practices spend a significant amount of time and effort reviewing external clinical information to determine what, how much to use and in what format.  How this is being done today probably uses a lot of older technology and is very manual. A good chart preparation process can save practices time and money and provide physicians with the vital clinical information needed for optimal clinical decision making. The availability of electronic clinical data from medical practices and facilities is here – from practices and facilities of all sizes nationwide. Implement this as soon as possible – take advantage of having this information in electronic form so that it’s easier to work with. There is a solution to automating chart prep for practices once a practice has identified the right infromation they need to include in the chart prep process.  Listen to this podcast to learn more about these best practices.

Is 2024 the year that the electronic exchange of medical records is the norm?

Since the early days of EMRs – the pre-Meaningful Use days, EMRs have come a long way in providing functionality for practices to connect to the outside world to extend their business processes and go beyond their practice walls.  But we still have a ways to go – especially when trying to connect to providers, health organizations, labs and other entities where there is no affiliation in some way, as for example, beyond the networks of providers who do not use the same EMR or don’t connect to the same HIE. Imagine consistently logging into a secure web site and finding a list of your patients for all upcoming appointments and seeing their clinical information being immediately available ready for you to review with tools that make it easy to find the information you need to export back to your EMR.  The tedious faxing, scanning, printing, and calling is replaced with a process that is finished in minutes - even seconds – saving staff precious time and helping your physicians have the critical clinical data needed for optimal clinical decision making.  Lets discuss where interoperability is today in 2024 and how your practice can drastically improve the process of managing medical records this year and into the future!

How to improve clinical operations and your bottom line with purpose

What makes healthcare unique and complex is that it involves both internal consitutents and external stakeholders, multiple processes and a number of technology dependencies.  This podcast is for practice administrators and healthcare providers who are looking to make improvements to their clinical operational processes. We must start with understanding what our vision is for our practice and then contemplate how these operational improvements will support that vision. Your vision provides a north star for the critical decisions your practice is making on behalf of the patients that you serve.  It is critical we examine our internal processes and workflows (both processes and people) that support how the practice is run. Making internal process changes may support your vision but it is important to understand the change management involved when those changes is made.  LIsten in for more details on the expert opinion of Ken Bradley, Chief Health Innovation Officer for more detail.