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Microsoft, AXA to Build Digital Healthcare Platform for Customers

April 27, 2021 - AXA recently announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft to build a digital healthcare platform to create a virtual healthcare system that is open to everyone. The partnership will be built on AXA’s global reach and its experience in healthcare, insurance, business, and technology architecture skills. Microsoft will commit its expertise...


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InterSystems Updates Health IT Suite to Boost FHIR Capabilities

by Samantha McGrail

InterSystems recently updated the availability of a suite of connected health solutions to improve Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) capabilities, as well as application program...

ONC Awards $2.7M to Projects to Advancing Healthcare Data Sharing

by Samantha McGrail

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently announced four awards totaling over $2.7 million to projects addressing the greatest healthcare data sharing...

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare Will Be Generally Available Oct. 30

by Samantha McGrail

Microsoft recently announced that Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare will generally be available on October 30, 2020, including managed services to support healthcare organizations.  The cloud...

Google Cloud Launches Healthcare API During the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud recently announced it created a Cloud Healthcare API to improve data interoperability and give providers real-time access to health data during the COVID-19 pandemic. The API will allow...

FHIR-based Pharmacy Care Coordination Platform Goes Live in 50 States

by Fred Donovan

An FHIR-based pharmacy care coordination platform, known as the Pharmacist eCare Plan (PeCP), is up and running in all 50 states. The PeCP platform was selected by the Office of the National...

ONC Ponies Up Close to $2M for Healthcare Interoperability Work

by Fred Donovan

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded close to $2 million to two organizations in order to fund their work in improving healthcare...

CommonHealth Enables Android Users to Share EHR with Health Apps

by Fred Donovan

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is piloting CommonHealth, an open-source, non-profit service designed to enable people to securely collect their electronic health record (EHR) data...

Healthcare Interoperability Gaps Make It Hard to Use Apps, Share Data

by Fred Donovan

Lack of healthcare interoperability is making it difficult for health systems to use healthcare apps, tap into unstructured data, and reduce the cost of care, according to a survey of 100 IT and...

Cloud Providers Reaffirm Support for Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce reaffirmed their commitment to healthcare interoperability, particularly the HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)...

CMS Unveils API-based Program to Expand Clinician Access to Health Data

by Fred Donovan

CMS unveiled on July 30 a new pilot program called Data at the Point of Care (DPC), which is based on an industry-standard API designed to give clinicians easier access to a patient’s health...

Providence St. Joseph Health to Deploy Cloud-Based Health IT with AI

by Fred Donovan

Providence St. Joseph Health is developing and deploying cloud-based health IT that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the clinical and care environment at the Renton, WA-based health...

Google Cloud-Based Healthcare API Is Now in Beta Version

by Fred Donovan

Google’s cloud-based healthcare API, designed to improve health data interoperability, is now in beta. Google said its cloud-based healthcare API offers a managed solution for storing and...

ONC Proposed Rule ‘Turning Point’ for Healthcare Interoperability

by Fred Donovan

The ONC proposed rule supporting the use of the Health Level Seven’s (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards for healthcare application programming interfaces (APIs) is...

FHIR May Not Help Healthcare Orgs Achieve Semantic Interoperability

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations participating in the value-based care environment are in need of strong, secure data pipelines that can help them communicate across disparate health systems to coordinate and...

Healthcare Providers Enthusiastic About Future API Adoption

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations are looking toward application programming interfaces (APIs) to usher in an era of interoperable health IT infrastructure according to a new report by Chilmark...

Why Application Programming Interfaces Are Key for Healthcare

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare organizations seeking to create interoperability between internal apps, EHRs, and other data exchange tools, are increasingly turning to application programming interfaces (APIs) to manage the flow of information between...

WEDI: EHR Integration Necessary for Leveraging Genomic Data

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

A white paper published by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) explores the potential to improve care coordination and health outcomes through the use of genomic information, a...

National HIE Connection and App Store in ONC Plans for 2016

by Frank Irving

National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD, revealed on Dec. 8 two key initiatives intended to catalyze health information exchange and health IT interoperability initiatives during the...

What Is the Right Pathway to Healthcare Interoperability?

by Kyle Murphy, PhD

According to the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the answer to that question is not one but "three critical pathways" that are necessary to advance...