By: Cristina Spears, Senior Special Projects Manager If you think tax filings and medical records have absolutely nothing in common, you would be dead wrong! The common denominator is that they’ve shifted away from being predominantly paper-based to digital-based within...
FHIR R4 and USCDI: What’s the current state; what mandated changes are coming next
By: Steve Emery, Senior Director of Product Management The current state of electronic health records (EHR) standards always comes up when Greenlight speaks with customers and prospects. It makes sense that they want to be sure their data will comply...
Leading insurer drives claims processing innovation by leveraging digital health records
To validate disability coverage and pay benefits, insurance companies typically place the burden of providing medical records on the claimant. However, this time-consuming process delays payments expected from coverage at a time when their policyholder needs it most. Getting the...
The Long & Winding Road to the Information Blocking Rule
Electronic Health Information Sharing and Patient Portals Hailed as Data Liberation Day by the government, the Information Blocking Rule (IBR) went into effect on October 6, 2022. This health policy is really about information sharing and empowering the patient to...
Something Exciting Happened on October 6th Concerning Your Medical Records
Co-Authored by Greenlight Health Data Solutions and Luna The Information Blocking Rule (IBR), now in effect, is a new federal regulation we should all celebrate as a big win for control over our health information, a right that we should...
Provider Obligations For Patient Portals Under The 21st Century Cures Act
When Congress prohibited “information blocking” under the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, it made no reference to patient portals, the websites through which many healthcare providers share clinical information with their patients. Similarly, the word “portal” does not appear once in...
It’s time to retire the Attending Physician Statement
Digital health records are now ready to eliminate the inefficiency of the APS Authored by: Steve Malik, Founder & CEO, Greenlight Health Data Solutions We have all experienced the frustration of having to re-enter personal information several times, on various...