178. HHS Releases ONC and CMS Final Rules

Intended Audience: Everyone

Today, we'll skip the "Last Week in Health IT" again and just focus on one big news item: HHS releases the ONC and CMS Final Rules. These documents are massive so this episode will be a very quick and succinct summary on what these thousands of pages mean. If you have some time on your hands, you can find the documents at the following:

ONC Final Rule: https://www.healthit.gov/cerus/sites/cerus/files/2020-03/ONC_Cures_Act_Final_Rule_03092020.pdf

CMS Final Rule: https://www.cms.gov/files/document/cms-9115-f.pdf

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Throwback: Carrying the Bag in Health IT feat. Dr. Jason Lebowitz

Intended Audience: Everyone

On this throwback episode, we talk to Dr. Jason Lebowitz on his career path through working for large Health IT companies and what his thoughts are in applying clinical pharmacy knowledge in Health IT sales. In addition, he discusses the importance taking opportunities to advance your career and how he decided to pursue a Master's in Health Delivery Science.

To reach Jason, you can visit his LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrlebowitz/

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177. Ideal Patient Identifiers in Health Information Exchange

Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics

Health information exchange relies on being able to exchange patient information in an easy fashion. One of the ways to do this is by having patient identifiers that are defined nationwide. Today's episode talks about some of the ideal attributes of universal patient identifiers.

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176. HIMSS20 Cancelled

Intended Audience: Everyone

HIMSS20 has been cancelled in the interest of public health. HIMSS20 has been going on uninterrupted for 58 years, and this year is the first time it has been cancelled. Today's episode will be reviewing the FAQ that HIMSS released regarding the conference cancellation. You can find the FAQ at https://www.himssconference.org/about/himss20-cancellation-faq

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175. An Important Healthcare Perspective in Health IT Consulting feat. Dr. Joseph Lassiter

Intended Audience: Everyone

On today's episode of the podcast, we speak with Dr. Joseph Lassiter, president and managing advisor of the Robertson group, a consulting group focused on providing a clinical perspective to healthcare IT consulting. He shares his journey in how he went from managed care to consulting and now to president of the Robertson Group, and he provides some educational nuggets from his experience teaching students regarding the role of an informatics pharmacist.

To reach out to Dr. Lassiter, you can email him at [email protected] or by visiting his LinkedIn page at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelassiter/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/JoeLassiter

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174. What Is Foundational Interoperability?

Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics

Interoperability exists in three forms: foundational, syntactic, and semantic. On today's episode, we go over what foundational interoperability is and review some examples of protocols that allow foundational interoperability to work.

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173. Last Week in Health IT for February 28th, 2020

Intended Audience: Everyone

Welcome to another episode of Last Week in Health IT where we talk about some of the significant Health IT-related news items that occurred in the past week.

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172. A Pharmacist, A Technologist, A Lawyer feat. Dr. Robert Stein

Intended Audience: Everyone

On today's episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with one of the pharmacists that was there at the beginning of pharmacy computer systems! Dr. Robert Stein, PharmD, JD started his career as a pharmacist and went into pharmacy technology for a number of years before getting into law and academia. To contact Dr. Stein for further questions, you can reach him at [email protected]

To see the video that was discussed in the podcast, check out https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vLTNhfHKsS1pUePzyj_pI-j9WIy6D4wr/view?usp=sharing

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171. The Three Types of HIE Models

Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics

On today's episode, we expand a previous discussion on HIE and we discuss the different types of HIE Models: Centralized HIE Federated HIE Patient-Controlled HIE

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170. Last Week in Health IT for February 21st, 2020

Intended Audience: Everyone

Welcome to another episode of Last Week in Health IT where we talk about some of the significant Health IT-related news items that occurred in the past week.

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