iShare Medical® Blog

Walk into any doctor’s office, hospital, or pharmacy and the first question you are most likely asked is some version of, “What is your name and date of birth?”

This is because patient matching in the U.S. healthcare system is done based on the patient’s name and date of birth. The problem is that there are many people who have the same name and date of birth. The larger the geographical area, the more common the name, the more likely that there will be two or more matches on the same name and date of birth.

Sight unseen behind the scenes PKI plays an essential role in safeguarding medical information through advanced authentication and encryption methods.

What is PKI?

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) is a security and identity framework that uses digital keys and certificates for digital identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, access, and digital signatures to help ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of health information.

In recent years, the world of computing has been buzzing with the promise and potential of quantum computers. These machines, harnessing the strange and powerful principles of quantum mechanics, have the potential to quickly solve complex problems that are currently beyond the capabilities of classical computers.

Structured data conforms to predefined standards such as the definition of the data, format, size, and allowed content making it easily searchable and analyzable. Often this content is tied to a predefined standard that lists a code, its description, and often an accessible set of values. For example, the abbreviation for states in the United States are structured data because they are pre-defined to contain two alpha characters or letters such as MO for Missouri and MS for Mississippi.

We are ushering in a new era of radical interoperability.

And with it comes a series of technologies that will drive disruption for the future of health IT in 2021 and beyond.

Everything from artificial intelligence to wearable devices to API's are poised to fuel our industry’s digital transformation.

The way healthcare communication works right now is very straightforward: Patients receive care. Providers provide care. Payers pay for care per the terms of the policy.

It’s a very linear process. However, traditionally in healthcare, we haven't always done a great job of seamlessly connecting these things.

Sharing electronic medical information is a highly complex initiative – which is why we’re thankful for an organization like DirectTrust to help establish a trust framework and educate industry leaders on how to share that information safely, and securely.

Did you know the majority of infectious disease case reports are manually filled out and sent via a machine that was invented in 1843?

Have you ever wished for a better way to communicate with providers than by sending a fax?

Despite all of the government legislation and discussions toward interoperability in recent years, medical records today are still incomplete.