The healthcare industry saw significant opportunities through the application of technologies like cloud computing and automation in the last decade. Big data applications were developed over cloud-based technology infrastructure mostly over the last five years and brought key advancements in drug discovery, clinical trials, early diagnoses, and customer service. Today, the healthcare sector is waiting […]
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This is our last post in a series of posts on the topic of ‘Data Standards in Health Informatics’. In this post we will go over ‘Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®)’ and ‘Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®)’ data standards in detail. Before you read this article further, we highly recommend you read Part I, […]
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In our last two posts on the topic of ‘Data Standards in Health Informatics’ we provided an overview of data standards in health informatics, and we covered SNOMED CT and ICD data standard in detail. Before you read this article further, we highly recommend you read Part I and II of the series: Data Standards […]
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In our last post on the topic of ‘Data Standards in Health Informatics – Part I’ we provided an overview of data standards in health informatics, and we covered SNOMED CT data standard in detail. In this post we will provide an in-depth view on ‘International Classification of Diseases (ICD) . The International Classification of […]
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What are data standards and why do we need them? Data standards – as the name suggests are agreed upon guidelines for recording /storing data elements or datasets. Adhering to data standards makes the sharing and exchange of data easy and streamlined. Let’s look at an example to understand the value of data standards. Here […]
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Healthcare consumers and patients have long been suffered from the complexity of the US healthcare system especially when it comes to pricing of services and how they would pay for it and how much they would pay for it. This is because prices can vary by hundreds to thousands of dollars between providers for the […]
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DCE: Direct Contracting Entities Recent risk-sharing payment model in Medicare, launched by CMS, to promote value-based and coordinated care. It differs from ACOs in terms of the requirements and level of risk available (refer to Table 1). Also, CMS would offer monthly Total Care Capitation or Primary Care Capitation (capitated and risk-adjusted) under two models […]
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Policy mandate on Interoperability, Data Access, HIE Policy Mandate Jun 2020: ONC published the Final Rule for the 21st Century Cures Act, establishing FHIR R4 as the standard required for Health IT Certification Jun 2020: The 21st Century Cures Act, the ONC Cures Act Final Rule, and the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access rule have […]
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