HIT News Round Up: HIMSS 2023 Squarely Focused on AI; Streamlining Public Health Data; and Digital Funding Priorities for 2023
Welcome to the Health Information Technology Weekly News Round Up from RosettaHealth. Each week, we will provide you with a summary of all the actionable news that hospitals, HIT vendors, ACOs, and population health providers need to be smart and effective when it comes to HIT and health information exchange.
Latest FHIR Standard R5 Elevates Data Exchange, Interoperability
Last week, HL7 unveiled its latest healthcare data exchange standard, HL7 FHIR R5, an enhanced and expanded version of its previous standard, designed to improve interoperability and data exchange in the healthcare sector.
Streamlining Public Health Data Use Agreements for the Next Pandemic
The end of a public health emergency presents the opportunity to establish workable legal foundations for collaborative data exchange between federal and state governments for key data categories, according to a new Health Affairs article.
HIMSS23: Health Data Utilities Hold Potential to Advance Interoperability
The future of Health Data Utilities was the focus of the opening keynote by Lisa Bari, CEO of Civitas Networks for Health, at the Interoperability and HIE Forum during the opening day of HIMSS23 last week.
EHR Vendors Demonstrated New GPT Features at HIMSS23
Last week at HIMSS23, Epic and eClinicalWorks demonstrated GPT3 integrations with Microsoft Azure's OpenAI Service, while Salesforce explained how healthcare customers can use Einstein GPT in CRM.
HIMSS 2023: Hard ROI on Health IT to be Scrutinized More Closely
Dr. Patrick McGill, chief transformation officer at Community Health Network, shared his perspective on the emerging need for HIT to demonstrate ROI, as well as the need for clinical decision support tools, at HIMSS23.
Investors Weigh in on Digital Health Funding in 2023
At the HIMSS23 Venture Connect event last week, panelists shared how their investment strategies are changing in a slowed funding landscape, as well as the types of companies that are more likely to prosper in today's funding environment.
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