How Regulatory Actions in healthcare advance healthcare interoperability and what it means for your practice
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
Release Date: 10/14/2024
How Regulatory Actions in healthcare advance healthcare interoperability and what it means for your practice
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
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...
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Spend Less Time on Medical Record Management: Here is How
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
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...
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Navigating the Data Maze: Addressing Challenges in Medical Chart Preparation
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
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...
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Is 2024 the year that the electronic exchange of medical records is the norm?
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
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...
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How to improve clinical operations and your bottom line with purpose
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
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...
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New Updates on Interoperability and How Practitioners Can Adopt Best Practices To Support
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
Interoperability is a critical component of value-based care models and frankly, good care. Practices will need to recognize that interoperability workflows need to accomodate both fax and electronic record exchange. It is important to have workflows and tools that can support our current process and future processes when it comes to managing medical records. With interoperability at the forefront of our healthcare system, it’s imperative decision-makers seize the opportunity to connect and collaborate with other physicians. At the end of the day, the main directive is to...
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Why Its Mutually Beneficial For Doctors and Patients to Participate in the Electronic Sharing of Medical Records
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
Clinical health information exchanges were created to be used for the bi-directional exchange of clinical information about mutual patients; this means that if you take something from the clinical exchange, so that other future treating providers can see a comprehensive clinical history about the patient, you are required to give something back. When all providers do this, over time, patient information will become more and more comprehensive and consistently available to all treating physicians. Over time, this expectation will become more routine but practices are still learning...
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The significance of patient data availability for oncologists and concierge doctors
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
Our Chief Health Innovation Officer, Ken Bradley hosts Dr. Chad Levitt for our most recent podcast. A board-certified radiation oncologist and Atlanta-native, Dr. Chad Levitt completed his doctorate and residency at Emory University’s School of Medicine. Dr. Levitt has served as clinical director of oncology practices and departments previously in Colorado, Florida, and Georgia. He is the founder of Radiotherapy Associates of Forsyth as well as ONCare Specialty Consultants. With over 20 years of experience in the treatment of cancer, Dr. Levitt has, over the years, been at the...
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Automating the medical record workflow - understanding the implications for your healthcare and clinical operations
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
The need for treating physicians to have a complete clinical understanding, which includes the need for a complete clinical history of each patient hasn't changed, but the process of how that clinical history is found and exchanged is beginning to change. With the new 21st Century Cures Act, the ground rules are taking shape and regulation that prohibits not-sharing is in place. However, we're at the very beginning of a long - and likely lengthy - journey to 100% digital exchange. In the meantime, providers, health systems and clinicians must treat patients in need of treatment and can't...
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How to Manage Your Medical Records & Navigate Growing Healthcare Issues
Vivlio Health - improving the medical record workflow
Our healthcare system is plagued by a number of rising issues, including inefficient management of medical records. What can you as a clinician do? Find out. While difficult, health systems and practices must nevertheless find ways to improve so they can provide high-quality treatment to patients and provide solutions that enable staff to do the accurate and efficient job they want to do. And all of this must be done while keeping an eye on cost and revenue objectives. The first step is to create a plan, and the critically important second step is to implement that plan. Find out more...
info_outlineIn 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.