What You Should Know: 

– Redox CEO and Co-Founder, Luke Bonney announced that he is stepping down as CEO and appointing Trip Hofer as the new CEO of Redox to lead the new phase of growth. Prior to joining Redox, Hofer most recently served as CEO of OptumHealth Behavioral Health Solutions and is the former CEO at AbleTo Inc. 

– Bonney stated that the next phase of Redox would be better served by a new CEO with experience in the next stage of the company scaling. Additionally, he stated his family is a significant reason for the transition.

– As part of the transition, Bonney will shift to that of an advisor to the new CEO, with the primary objective of supporting the new CEO and ensuring their success.

What You Should Know:

• Redox, a provider of healthcare interoperability – recently partnered with Sage Growth Partners to survey executives and technology decision-makers from over 100 large academic medical centers and multi-hospital health systems.
• The survey uncovered strategic cloud investment priorities for large healthcare organizations, including current and future use cases and desired business outcomes for cloud technology, as well as roadblocks to realizing those outcomes at scale. Findings are published in their new report “Uncovering hidden data roadblocks of cloud and AI adoption in healthcare.”

Barriers and Challenges to Cloud and AI Adoption in Healthcare

While improved data security and reduced costs are table-stakes expectations for cloud adoption, executives expect to see a sharp increase in use cases for enhanced product innovation, improved patient engagement and retention, and improved diagnosis and treatment in the near future.

When evaluating future use cases, 97% of provider executives stated that ingesting real-time clinical data is crucial to their enablement – but only 3% haven’t encountered any challenges when attempting to ingest clinical data into the cloud. 

All major cloud clinical data repositories store data in the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) standard, making it easier to build and connect to an ecosystem of analytics, AI, and apps. However – most legacy systems do not yet use FHIR, requiring organizations to transform data from multiple legacy systems into FHIR to prepare for cloud ingestion. As a result, these projects can become mired in technical complexity, leading to delayed implementation and a critical lack of understanding of clinical workflows. 

Survey respondents shared that their top 3 challenges to execute on cloud ingestion projects are:

1. Human capital (68%) – lack of in-house expertise and/or human resources to map legacy standards to FHIR and maintain integrations
2. Financial capital (52%) – lack of budget for data translation and ingestion
3. Technical capital (44%) – lack of technology to facilitate translation and ingestion at scale
4. Time to Value – 85% of cloud integration projects take longer than 6 months to complete, with more than 45% taking at least 12 months to complete.

These barriers collectively add up to one overarching challenge – significantly delayed time to value. Cloud ingestion projects can often be slow and painful to execute, with 40% taking longer than initially budgeted. 86% of cloud integration projects take longer than 6 months to complete, while 34% take longer than 12 months. 

“Clinical data ingestion is critical to enabling cloud projects, and the complexity of translating legacy data from multiple sources into FHIR is a barrier that many organizations don’t anticipate,” said Devin Soelberg, Redox’s VP of Strategic Partnerships. “The survey results illuminate the nuanced challenges that result when undergoing these projects. This report serves to surface those challenges so that these organizations are well-prepared and don’t waste scarce time, budget, and human resources.”

What You Should Know:

• Verato and Redox today announced a partnership that will combine Verato identity data management solutions with Redox’s composable technology ecosystem to enable improved data access, better interoperability, and higher-quality information gathering across a growing digital ecosystem.
• The integration will allow healthcare organizations to access a single source of truth for identity, including a complete and trusted 360-degree view of their patients, members, providers, and communities, which enables them to better understand who is who™ across the entire care continuum.
• The partners have already launched a new solution to Redox customers: Redox Chroma EMPI powered by Verato. Redox Chroma EMPI powered by Verato leverages leading identity technology and easily integrates into organizations’ existing technology suites, enabling them to create a full, accurate identity record for each person they serve.

What You Should Know:

– TXI, the strategy and product innovation firm, today is teaming up with Redox, a company accelerating data interoperability in healthcare, to build and scale digital products from startups to enterprise-scale healthcare technology companies. The partnership will help to accelerate care outcomes for providers and patients.

– The partnership comes at a critical time as healthcare systems face staffing challenges, budget pressures, and a continued shift to virtual and hybrid models. Patients and providers are also increasingly looking to leverage data to better inform care plans. Together, these pressures increase the need for data-driven, remote care models like mHealth, remote therapeutic monitoring and remote patient monitoring solutions.

Partnership Benefits for TXI’s Healthcare Clients

Redox’s healthcare technology platform provides the following benefits for TXI’s healthcare clients:

– Accelerate patient outcomes with data: Providers and patients can leverage data from over 350 digital health products to improve and accelerate care outcomes.

– Extensive connectivity: Providers and payers can quickly compose any data or service, making it faster and easier to connect healthcare data across health systems.

– Instant scalability and deployment: 30,000+ healthcare organizations across the U.S. have at least one Redox-powered application, providing significant scaling opportunities for integrated patient solutions.

– Composable experiences: Redox’s single, easy-to-use API allows healthtech builders, providers and payers to build any patient, member or provider experience they can think of – while reducing time-consuming technical work.

“Healthcare continues to experience a massive paradigm shift. Organizations that will succeed in this new environment are those that can focus on patients and their digital experiences, while leveraging their care data to generate improved outcomes,” said Mark Rickmeier, CEO of TXI. “By partnering with Redox, TXI can bring solutions to market even faster with the greatest coverage of hospital networks, payers and providers.”

What You Should Know:

– KLAS asked 16 prominent members of the healthcare community with broad HIT expertise to read 42 KLAS reports on emerging technology and rate their perception of the solutions based on their potential to impact the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare: to improve outcomes, reduce the cost of care, improve the patient experience, and improve the clinician experience.

– The new report by KLAS (1) ranks these emerging solutions by their ability to disrupt the healthcare market and (2) provides insights from participating healthcare leaders into what innovation themes organizations should be aware of as they seek to provide the best patient care. 

Analysing Insights to Improve Patient-Care

The partnerships that healthcare organizations make with technology vendors and services firms drive outcomes for years to come, and amidst a flood of new technologies, amazing potential partners can be missed. A new report by KLAS aims to analyse the insights presented in 42 reports on emerging technology, in order to ultimately improve patient-care by highlighting the key trends and patterns in previous reports. The companies mentioned below are those who received the top 5 scores in relation to each Quadruple Aim; those ranked for each aim combine to make up the 2022 Emerging Solutions Top 20. In addition to being featured in this report, the Top 20 emerging companies were recognized at KLAS ’ 2022 Digital Health Investment Symposium.

The insights are as follows:

1. Top 5-Improve Outcomes

– Atlas Heath was lauded for being a game changer for nonprofit health systems, and for patients with limited resources who find themselves faced with a significant diagnosis that is expensive to treat. For that matter, the Atlas Health Solution is an exceptional use of AI to improve outcomes. Connecting patients with philanthropic aid is the need of the hour.

– Datos Health offers an interesting combination of RPM data along with data from patient questionnaires. The drag-and-drop interface design is a big bonus on top of an emerging patterns hip with Redox. This highlights the need for globally supporting remote care workflows while reducing care team workloads.

– Harnessing Big Data to generate actionable healthcare insights is paramount. The Clarify Health solution gets acknowledgement for being a beacon of hope for organisations with limited analytics, or for those who want to outsource or substantially augment their analytical capabilities.

– It is paramount that healthcare continues to move in a direction where technology-enabled logistics help improve its standards. “The vendor provides an innovative approach to closing the loop in the patient journey. The patient journey is not always the end of the encounter; rather, it is viewed as the beginning of care optimization and a successful outcome of the patient that is sometimes the hardest. I like the concept of Phox Health because it can complete the process of full patient satisfaction through methodology of medication and durable equipment delivery services through an expanded network of medical couriers to the patient’s home. Phox Health mimics some of the consumer demand expectations like that of Amazon, Uber Eats, and others. Ultimately, patient satisfaction and patient value are typically seen at the last mile of care, closest to home.” – Executive

– Finally, it is important to shed light on how improving patient access through patient engagement technology is not often discussed enough. Patient engagement that uses AI and other technologies is an exciting frontier for health systems around the globe. HealthTalk AI has completed integration with over 90 vendors positioning them well for success in the near term.

• Top 5-Reduce the Cost of Care

– Remote monitoring needs to be better utilised to increase patient safety. With staffing being one of the biggest issues for operations today, AvaSure makes a lot of sense because it is a force multiplier. This way, one sitter can watch twelve patients with remote monitoring.

– Atlas Health seems to have found a unique niche in matching eligible patients with philanthropic medical financial programs. Their financial model is not clear from the customer feedback. Still, they can easily go into a risk-sharing agreement with hospitals and benefit from the upside potential of their solution. Atlas Health’s strengths are the quick ROI and simplicity of their AI-based solution. They need to develop integrations with the key EMRs.

– Data aggregation through a cloud-based delivery mechanism is valuable, specifically for organizations that don’t have a robust data team. Alignment with value-based purchasing contracts provides high value to organizations. Clarify Health appears to offer a high level of responsiveness and performance.

– An effective and reliable system that ties care-gap identification and closure to rapid payment will help improve provider adoption of VBC principles and practices leading to improved outcomes. This technology can certainly improve the payment for specific actions leading to the reinforcement of improved behaviors.

– Vatica Health provides high-touch services in the transition between fee-for-service and value-based care, therefore improving risk adjustment and closing care gaps.

• Top 5-Improve Patient Experience

– Engaging and embracing patients via a well-designed, user-friendly mobile interface is key to ensuring patient loyalty. The digital front door is a new differentiator for health systems to improve the experience for the patients, caregivers, employees, and community. Streamlining functions into a single application with close integration to the EMR, PHM, and RPM systems is essential. The core EMR vendors are slower to capitalize in this space, and that allows niche vendors to show their strengths.

– Gozio’s product appears to be a very effective wayfinding solution with great potential to impact patient satisfaction and visit efficiency. This improves the patient experience using location-aware technology.

– HealthTalk AI is leading the way for improving patient access through patient engagement technology. “The HealthTalk A.I. solution appears to be a positively received, well-executed, and well-designed platform that includes asynchronous patient contact, a chatbot, and scheduling. Solutions like this should be a core focus for healthcare systems because they can directly increase access and impact patients’ ability to connect in the right way.”

– Price transparency benefits for patients and providers also improves the patient experience. Furthermore, technology-enabled logistics for healthcare go a long way in ensuring that the patient experience is fundamentally improved.

• Top 5-Improve Clinician Experience

– Improving patient-physician experience through Ambient Clinical Intelligence is one of the most exciting new frontiers in the sphere of medicine today. “Conceptually, the promise of a future automatic dictation solution that can just listen to the patient encounter and then write the note for me seems incredible. That would be a total game changer from a workflow standpoint, as documentation is one of the most painful pieces of the clinical experience as a practicing physician.”

– Deliberate performance management and engagement, coupled with AI-driven workflow automation and digitisation were two factors identified in improving the clinician’s experience.

– Lastly, other corporations can follow suit of SyncTimes and Vatica Health, who have been prime examples of optimising clinical efficiency and patient experience by improving risk adjustment and closing gaps present in patient-care.

The Institute for Healthcare improvement indicates that twice as many healthcare organizations cite health equity as a top priority today when compared to 2019. It may feel like the COVID-19 pandemic just made us collectively realize that health disparities exist, but they have been acknowledged in academic, government, and philanthropic spheres for over 4 decades. While I would love to debate if our collective realization was blissful ignorance or intentional avoidance, I will save those fireworks for another time and focus on the good news here –  finally, we see these disparities, and finally, private organizations are making real commitments to more equitably allocate resources across communities, races, and classes. Among these committed organizations, health plans are uniquely positioned to drive real change. 

I know, I know, the mere mention of insurance companies likely draws an eye roll, but hear me out. Americans see a myriad of physicians and caregivers who only have a part of their story, but their health plan (eventually) sees the full view as claims roll in for the services and treatments they received. Further, the health plan ultimately assumes the risk for their members’ health and wellbeing and as such, they have a real, tangible financial interest in giving each of their members the best possible opportunity to be healthy. Have we finally found a place where doing the “right thing” is also profitable? I think we may have! 

Health plans are finally investing, not just in health care services, but in addressing the social determinants of health (SDOH) – providing access to healthy meals, reimbursing transportation, and supporting local community organizations that are focused on driving health equity improvement. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) recently assembled a truly impressive list of what health plans across the nation are doing. There are so many examples of good work and generous investments in this list, but as a former Kaiser Permanente girl (and still a huge cheerleader), I will highlight their $25 million commitment to supporting racial equity and economic opportunity in communities hardest hit by the pandemic.

This is a start! But, you guessed it, much more is required. As a current Redox girl, I feel deeply that the work ahead must begin with addressing data – without the right data, it is nearly impossible to truly quantify the breadth or depth of health disparities or establish in-depth plans to take action. The absence of data perpetuates an environment where we can return to blissful ignorance and/or intentional avoidance. 

There were recently some huge steps in pushing this forward. On April 20th, CMS outlined a strategy to advance health equity which included a call to standardize the collection of and use of SDOH data across CMS programs. The following week, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BCBS) released a paper calling for the healthcare industry to adopt national data collection standards to advance health equity. They asked for healthcare leaders to “ensure the data needed to measure and address those disparities is standardized across all systems.” BCBSA is a founding member of the Gravity Project which is working to develop data standards to represent individual-level SDOH information in digital platforms and ensure they are used consistently across the healthcare industry.

CMS strategies and the Gravity Project are likely the right vehicles to get us there – industry-wide agreement and adoption are the only way to get to a place where we have and can trust SDOH data. These efforts are monumental and will take time.  What my 3-year-old might call  “a long, long, long, long time”. So in the meantime, what can be done? Health plans should maximize real-time interoperability with providers, third-party vendors, public health entities, and other payers to build the most comprehensive, actionable view of their member’s demographics, health, and care journeys. Building this view will overcome problems with claim data latency and also open new opportunities to recognize health disparities, take action to close gaps, and unleash innovation that leads us toward health equity. 

While I have a ton of faith in the power of health plans (many would argue too much), it’s important also to acknowledge that health plans alone cannot fix this problem. The chronic underfunding of public health in this country and issues of systemic racism must also be addressed to truly achieve lasting health equity. All of these things can be done so long as we resist the pullback into blissful ignorance or intentional avoidance.

About Jessica Bonham-Werling

Jessica Bonham-Werling is a Sr. Manager of Payer and Provider Solutions Marketing at Redox, an interoperability platform that is connecting healthcare and making data useful. Jessica has 18 years of health and healthcare experience as a consultant, marketer, and builder, focusing her efforts on using data and technology to expand access to care and improve health equity. Jessica holds an M.B.A. from the University of California – Los Angeles and a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona.

Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included:  

– Developing a solution for a national EHR database. 

– Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug development. 

– Leveraging the combined company’s provider customer base across ERP (legacy Oracle) and EHR (legacy Cerner) to drive new products and synergies. 

– Expansion of Millennium functionality in telemedicine, disease-specific management tools, RCM, HCM and diagnostics. 

The element of the vision that has captured most of the headlines since has been the national EHR plans, with most commentators correctly highlighting the challenges that would be faced with any such initiative. The last 20 years represent a graveyard of examples of similar projects with similar lofty ambitions that were announced with fanfare but were followed years later by failure. I’m from the UK and the catastrophe that was the National Program for IT (known here as “the biggest IT failure ever seen” and which had similar ambitions) is ingrained into the UK health industry’s long-term memory as a warning to all.  

That said, the key thrust of Ellison’s arguments rings true. For the most part, the US is a web of siloed EHRs that are hospital/provider-centric in terms of the patient record, not patient-centric, and they do not provide the population and clinicians with a longitudinal patient health history. The same is true for most other countries and the time-honored argument that “if other industries can connect data better, why can’t healthcare?” still resonates. 

Why Now? 

A key question is, has anything changed in terms of healthcare structures and healthcare IT in recent years that make the viability of a national EHR overlay any more likely?  

To some extent, yes, there have been several developments over recent years that have chipped away at some of the barriers.  

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), while itself now more than a decade old, has changed healthcare structures and the technology deployed significantly. There is already more integration in the provision of healthcare and the associated IT across the US. The rapid rise of IDNs, ACOs and consolidation of healthcare providers has spurred greater IT integration, particularly in relation to patient records at a health system level. While the journey is far from complete, e.g. a huge proportion of EHR installations are still siloed, some of the barriers have come down with HIE, PHM and data integration tools being offered by companies like Health Catalyst, Innovaccer, InterSystems, Lyniate, AWS, Google, Redox, Epic and Oracle Cerner itself. These already connect EHRs and other associated health care IT at regional/health system levels, providing a summary EHR overlay.  

The ACA, and earlier initiatives, also spurred the rollout of regional HIEs across parts of the US over the last decade. These are, in essence, watered-down versions of regional EHRs, and depending on the sophistication of the technology deployed and ambitions of the HIE scope, do serve to some extent in supporting shared access to patient data across organizations.  

However, issues relating to interoperability, ability to integrate HIE data back into a provider-specific EHR, depth of information exchange, level of provider participation and information latency have limited the usefulness of these HIEs resulting in them failing to really take hold in large parts of the US. Further, health system participation in HIEs has also been patchy with some choosing to only participate in HIEs where other participants are using the same vendor for their EHR or only participating in systems with allied groups.  

However, they do offer at least a starting blueprint for greater data sharing, and with next-generation HIE deployment on the horizon, this could offer a conduit for Oracle Cerner and its national EHR ambitions. 

Internationally there are pockets of success in terms of countries adopting a national EHR database whilst still using local instances of an EHR for provider operational use. Examples tend to be in small- or mid-size economies, with notable success in the Nordics (e.g. Kanta in Finland). However, for every successful model, there are usually two or more failed or stalled models where the system has not succeeded, or fallen significantly short of the original vision (e.g. Australia, New Zealand, and the UK attempt mentioned above).  

Why Oracle Cerner? 

Even if the barriers to creating a national EHR overlay from a technology, demand, privacy, logistics and integration perspective can be overcome, Oracle Cerner is not the only company that could support deployment from a technology perspective. Many other vendors offer solutions for aggregating multi-vendor, cross-setting EHR data into a longitudinal record such as those listed earlier.  

InterSystems already has some experience doing this at a national level in the US to some extent via its contract to provide the underlying technology (HealthShare) for the eHealth Exchange (effectively a national network of regional HIEs covering 77% of state/regional HIEs, and 75% of hospitals). This is less of a national EHR and more of a national system for exchanging patient data, but nonetheless offers a real-world example of a solution aimed at addressing the siloed nature of EHRs and patient data at a national level.  

That said, Oracle Cerner is in a strong position in terms of credentials given its large installed base of US hospital customers already using its EHR (second only to Epic) and its installed base of ambulatory and primary care EHR customers (although its share is much smaller here compared to the hospital market).  

Further, it has experience in deploying solutions to connect providers’ individual EHR instances having deployed HealtheIntent (its current solution to support system-wide summary care records) to more than 200 customers across the US. Here in the UK, HealtheIntent has been used to support connecting approximately a quarter of regional Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and their associated providers, providing summary patient care records of the type Ellison envisions, but at a regional rather than a national level.   

However, Oracle Cerner did not share, and cannot yet confirm, whether HealtheIntent will be the foundation technology for any national EHR database. It is still not yet clear whether the strategy will be to develop HealtheIntent for this purpose, develop a new solution or look to extend the connectivity functionality of Millennium.  

HealtheIntent would seem the obvious foundation, given its current main use-case is integrating data from disparate EHRs, vendors, and settings; exactly what the company says it wants to do at a national level. However, scaling to this extent would be a significant step beyond its original design. 

Headline Grabbing Opportunity Versus Real Revenue Opportunity? 

At the start of this insight, I stated that Larry Ellison had outlined several elements of Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post the Cerner acquisition.  

The national EHR database was one, but Ellison also highlighted using the national EHR, or similar, smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, and the data that resides in the underlying systems to provide life science, pharma, and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials, and drug development. 

Is this the real story and the real focus for Oracle Cerner in terms of new revenue-generating business?  

It’s less headline-grabbing than the national EHR database, so understandable why Oracle Cerner led with that, but the obstacles for success are significantly lower and potential revenue higher and more immediate.  

A national EHR may be the ultimate vision for Oracle Cerner, but the more immediate value and the more achievable short-term goal would be from the aggregation of Cerner’s (anonymized) in-house patient data to support this business opportunity. Cerner had started to head down this route already before the Oracle deal, as had many of its competitors.  

This would not require the database to be national, indeed this could be something offered using Oracle Cerner’s existing connections and data, with the value incrementally increasing as the network broadened and potentially one day reached a national level.  

The national EHR announcement may have worked best to grab headlines and prompt analysis such as this insight, but an increased emphasis on connecting and commercializing Cerner’s repository of patient data to support life science, pharma and research, is likely to ultimately prove the “real announcement”.  

About Alex Green

Alex Green is the Director and Principal Analyst at Signify Research, a UK-based market research firm focusing on health IT, digital health, and medical imaging. Alex is responsible for leading Signify Research’s Digital Health market intelligence portfolio, initially developing its coverage of the patient engagement platforms and portals market.

What You Should Know:

– Withings partners with healthcare IT integration company Redox, which will make its remote patient monitoring solution, Withings MED·PRO CARE, compatible with nearly all EHRs used by physicians, hospitals, and medical institutions.

– Through the partnership, physicians can now order and ship Withings clinically-validated connected health devices directly to their patients through their EHR.

– As patients use their Withings devices, which are designed to be simple to use daily, their physicians can access and analyze their patients’ data seamlessly through Redox.

Withings, early pioneers of the connected health revolution, today announced it has partnered with Redox, a single, secure API endpoint that connects and integrates provider EHRs with healthcare products and services. The partnership makes MED·PRO CARE, the unique Withings remote patient monitoring solution, compatible with nearly all EHRs used by physicians, hospitals, and medical institutions.

Withings MED·PRO CARE

Withings launched MED·PRO CARE, its remote patient monitoring platform, to allow caregivers, medical institutions, and private organizations to manage multiple patients’ physiological data through the company’s portfolio of connected health devices and data analytical capabilities.

Patients benefit from beautifully designed devices that require little to no set up to fit effortlessly into their daily lives. In fact, thanks to the Withings Data HUB, a plug and play cellular gateway created specifically for Withings MED·PRO solutions, health providers can even deliver devices to patients that require no set up or daily management at all.

Clinically Validated Health Devices Now Compatible with EHRs

Through the partnership, physicians can now order and ship Withings clinically-validated connected health devices directly to their patients through their EHR in just a few simple steps. Patients can use their Withings devices to monitor and track their health in their traditional home environments while their physicians access and analyze their data seamlessly through Redox. The solution is HIPAA compliant and uses HL7 international standards.

“During the pandemic, the importance of remote patient monitoring soared. However, for its long term success and utilization to be assured, it must be simple for both physicians and their patients,” said Mathieu Letombe, CEO of Withings. “Our partnership with Redox means Withings now integrates into practically every EHR system allowing physicians and hospitals to easily send Withings devices to their patients and access insights into their daily blood pressure, weight, sleep patterns, heart rates, and more. With Redox’s one connection and our range of devices, designed to easily integrate into patients’ everyday lives, the entire process is effortless for all involved, and many of the common frictions associated with remote patient monitoring are removed.”

Availability

Withings connected health devices are now available through Redox.

What You Should Know:

– Voluntis forms a strategic partnership with Redox to integrate Voluntis’ digital therapeutics within existing clinical workflows and EHRs.

– Integration of Voluntis’ Theraxium platform with the Redox Engine used by more than 900 healthcare organizations using 55 EHRs across the country.

– The first area of this application will be in oncology, with future extensions in other therapeutic areas. As a result, clinical staff will be better equipped to serve each patient when they need it most.

Voluntis, a Cambridge, MA-based provider of digital therapeutics, announced its strategic partnership with Redox, a Madison, WI-based interoperability platform for healthcare data exchange. The partnership will allow providers to automate and adapt insights on their patients’ treatment journey within their Electronic Health Records (EHR) to enhance care and collaboration.

Redox and Voluntis will work together in an effort to improve the integration of digital therapeutics as part of routine clinical practice and enrich EHR data with actionable insights on how patients experience their treatment at home. Clinical staff will be better equipped to anticipate and implement responsive care strategies that work to serve each patient’s individual needs when they need it most.

Enabling Interoperability of Digital Therapeutics with EHRs

As part of the collaboration, the two companies will integrate Voluntis’ digital therapeutics platform, Theraxium, with Redox’ interoperability platform. The new capabilities will benefit all the solutions developed by Voluntis together with or on behalf of its life sciences partners.

Today, more than 900 healthcare organizations using 55 EHR vendors trust Redox to strategically integrate digital health solutions into their day-to-day operations. Through this partnership, the Voluntis portfolio of products are immediately interoperable with any organization using Redox for healthcare data exchange to optimize the provider and patient experience.

Why It Matters

“Digital therapeutics are the next disruptive force in the healthcare industry. They offer personalized therapeutic interventions for patients that are configured by their care team and backed by clinical evidence,” said Voluntis CEO Pierre Leurent. “With the collaboration of Redox, we intend to strengthen the ability of our Theraxium platform, and the digital therapeutics it supports, to work seamlessly with EHRs and be a fully integrated component of routine care.” 

What You Should Know:

– Updox partners with healthcare integration platform Redox to integrate with any EHR, deliver seamless telehealth to health systems

– Updox is expanding its network to include the largest inpatient EHRs in order to supply healthcare professionals with solutions that support in-person and virtual care.

As virtual care continues to increase in demand, Updox, a provider of care coordination across both in-person and virtual care, announced today a significant expansion of its technological capabilities in order to enable healthcare providers quicker access to telehealth in a way that seamlessly connects to their EHR. Specifically, Updox has partnered with healthcare integration platform Redox, which enables the company to connect with any EHR.

The partnership will enable Updox to expand its network to include the largest inpatient EHRs in order to supply healthcare professionals with solutions that support in-person and virtual care, connected to their EHR for improved efficiency and patient experiences. This news comes on the heels of the launch of Updox Forms, which increases workflow efficiencies, streamlining patient intake and enhancing the overall patient experience.

How Redox Works

Redox accelerates the development and distribution of healthcare solutions with a full-service integration platform to securely and efficiently exchange data. EHR integrations cause IT resources to spend a significant amount of time to set up. Redox takes on the bulk of this work and significantly reduces the time needed. Healthcare organizations and technology vendors connect once and authorize the data they send and receive across the most extensive interoperable network in healthcare.

“Healthcare has been turned upside down this year and continues to evolve. More than ever, the industry needs improved efficiency that saves time and the ability to enhance the patient experience. Updox offers one place – a single unified inbox – to coordinate all communications associated with care. Our partnership with Redox helps ensure a connection with any EHR so anyone in healthcare can modernize their communications,” says Michael Morgan, CEO, Updox.

What You Should Know:

– Today, Redox announced the availability of the Redox EHR Integration in AWS Marketplace. Now, healthcare providers and vendors can access the largest package of pre-built EHR integrations and achieve value from applications more quickly and easily.

– The digital transformation of healthcare has gained momentum this year, and AWS is one of many tech giants working to spur innovation in healthcare. AWS Marketplace is a platform that helps healthcare organizations modernize patient care and lower costs by simplifying software procurement.

Redox, a Madison, WI-based cloud-based interoperability provider, today announced the availability of the Redox EHR Integration in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog that makes it easy to find, test, buy and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS Marketplace features solutions for the healthcare and life sciences industries that can help healthcare organizations modernize patient care, improve collaboration, comply with complex regulations, and lower costs by simplifying software procurement. By purchasing Redox directly from AWS Marketplace, software developers can meet their specific business needs and scale requirements, accelerating deployment, and adoption of their applications.

Redox EHR Integration Works

Redox standardizes healthcare data with a vendor-agnostic application programming interface (API) and a cloud-based network where digital health vendors can exchange data, such as patient clinical and financial data, ERP and inventory management, with EHR systems in healthcare organizations. By normalizing data formats and eliminating redundant connections, Redox enables developers to use FHIR resources that work best for their software.

Why It Matters

The digital transformation of healthcare has gained tremendous momentum in 2020 and AWS Marketplace is a key platform to spur innovation to occur in healthcare and life sciences. With Redox in AWS Marketplace, digital health developers can deploy bidirectional and secure data exchange between hospital and provider organizations and electronic health record (EHR) data on AWS. One connection to Redox improves developer productivity with data infrastructure services to eliminate many of the challenges of ingesting, processing, and storing healthcare data.

“One of the most important steps toward healthcare transformation is being able to integrate multiple IT systems throughout a provider network, thus making data available across the continuum of care to lower costs and improve care outcomes. Our Healthcare and Life Sciences customers, especially those providing telehealth, patient engagement, care coordination and medical device solutions to patients, now have an easy way to deploy the Redox platform via AWS Marketplace, to advance the promise of digital health innovation,” said Dr. Oxana Pickeral, global segment leader for healthcare and life sciences at Amazon Web Services, Inc.

What You Should Know:

– Redox adds data on demand and single sign-on access features to its cloud interoperability platform to help to simplify the process of developing software for healthcare.

– Both new features are now available to all customers on the Redox platform.

Redox Inc., a Madison, WI-based interoperability platform for healthcare data exchange, unveiled Data on Demand, which enables software developers to query any electronic health record (EHR) or healthcare data source via the Redox API. Powered by a FHIR-conformant data storage architecture, Data on Demand is pre-built integration infrastructure designed to simplify and normalize the integration experience and reduce the technical burden of consuming hundreds or thousands of messages per day. In addition, the company has added Single Sign-on that allows applications using Redox to make it easier for providers to launch their products from within their EHR in an efficient manner. Both features are available to all customers on the Redox platform. 

Data on Demand and Single Sign-on Simplify the Process of Developing Software

Redox continues to expand the integration capabilities healthcare software developers can access through a single API with these new features:

Data on Demand converts traditional HL7 feeds into a data store that application developers can query on demand. This provides a consistent integration experience that works with both the push- and API-based integrations provided by EHR companies. Regardless of how data is provided by the EHR, Redox customers can more easily manage the volume of messages and logic needed to update information, allowing them to focus on getting the data that they want, when they want it. No other integration vendor can turn HL7 feeds into reusable queries.

Single Sign-On (SSO) allows customers to improve the provider’s experience with their products by sharing login credentials and pertinent patient or visit context along with patient data that they’ve collected. This allows applications on the Redox network to securely connect to other applications and share the login context for a user. Customers trust Redox to verify that the SSO request is valid, and Redox normalizes and pulls the information to launch the application.

“Redox continues to develop the robust integration capabilities software developers need to navigate the fragmented world of data exchange and interoperability in healthcare,” said Niko Skievaski, co-founder and president, Redox. “The Redox API is transforming the way healthcare organizations access and share data. Our company’s ultimate goal is to enable the frictionless adoption of technology in healthcare, and we’re making great strides as the interoperability standard and one-stop-shop for our customers.” 

What You Should Know:

– The latest Chilmark Research report examines how data-oriented APIs are contributing to development and integration efforts across healthcare from the perspective of the developer.

– Reeling from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and seeking more effective ways to implement new functionality, healthcare enterprises of all kinds are looking to alternatives for prevailing development and integration practices.

Unlocking value from the data scattered across healthcare communities was once a tantalizing opportunity. After COVID-19, it is an existential necessity. Chilmark Research’s latest Market Trends Report, Open APIs in Healthcare: The Future of Data Integration, captures a market whose approach to data access and integration will be changing substantially in the coming years and introduces a subvertical within healthcare IT that anticipates a 16% CAGR through 2025.

APIs Are Still New in Healthcare

Outside healthcare, the ascendance of data access and integration facilitated by application programming interfaces (APIs) is the culmination of decades of technology evolution and implementation lessons with distributed applications. Across the SaaS landscape in particular, APIs have become the preferred method for accessing data and conducting transactions across applications and organizations. Developers recognize and appreciate the value of loosely coupling their applications and data, wherever each is located.

Inside healthcare, many enterprises are hesitant on the topic of APIs, seeing them as too big a leap from established, successful software practices. But they also recognize that eliminating the need for hard-coded interfaces that must be re-implemented every time an application or its underlying data changes will deliver higher programmer productivity and more-responsive applications.

Traditional Integration Methods Fall Short
Conventional development and integration approaches proved cumbersome and slow in efforts to contribute to understanding or responding to the current health crisis. Unlocking more value from the data scattered across healthcare communities is — post-COVID-19 — a critical element in clinical and financial renewal.

“Enterprises across healthcare were already wrestling with challenging market forces and government mandates,” says Brian Murphy, the report’s lead author and analyst. “Open APIs will play a central role for providers, payers, or any healthcare enterprises that intend to better utilize their data and pursue development efforts that make them — and the broader healthcare community — more responsive and adaptable to the demands of a post-pandemic healthcare system.”

Developers Require Accessible Data

Developers find data wherever they can from among a large and confusing mix of data holders and associated vendors. This report identifies the sources where different kinds of health-related data are most likely to be API-accessible. It shows how APIs are already contributing to development and integration efforts across healthcare and estimates the much larger potential of widespread adoption.

This report includes detailed profiles on 20 public and private organizations and their offerings, including 1upHealth, 4Medica, Allscripts, Apple, Athenahealth, Availity, Blue Button 2.0, Cerner, Change Healthcare, Datica, Epic, Human API, Meditech, NextGen, NCPDP, Particle Health, The Sequoia Project, Redox, Surescripts, and Validic.

For more information about the report, visit https://www.chilmarkresearch.com/chilmark_report/open-apis-in-healthcare-the-future-of-data-integration/

– As a Carequality Implementer, Redox has added access to more than 500,000 Carequality-enabled physicians to its already extensive network.

– Redox members can use the same patient search query to search all the participants in the Carequality framework as they would if they used a direct patient search API provided by an electronic health record (EHR) vendor.

Redox Inc., the leading interoperability platform for healthcare data exchange, today announced that as a Carequality Implementer it has added access to more than 500,000 Carequality-enabled physicians to its already extensive network. Redox members can use the same patient search query to search all the participants in the Carequality framework as they would if they used a direct patient search API provided by an electronic health record (EHR) vendor. A single connection with Redox allows members to have broad access to exchange with any Carequality Connection and the ability to integrate data using deeper direct connections with more than 900 healthcare organizations within the Redox network.

Companies that want to leverage the Carequality framework for care coordination and integrate with other healthcare data sources can use the Redox application programming interface (API) to eliminate integration complexity and speed up time to value. Redox standardizes healthcare data with a vendor-agnostic API and a cloud network where organizations can exchange information with their partners. This network interoperability approach simplifies the way organizations exchange healthcare data by eradicating the issue of inconsistent data formats and redundant connections. Messages may be transmitted and/or received in any message format associated with the healthcare entity’s existing EHR system.

“Connectivity, interoperability and seamless information exchange are necessities in today’s data-driven environment to care for an ever-growing and diverse population of patients,” said David Cassel, executive director of Carequality. “Having Redox as an implementer facilitates patient care to deliver health information to the right people at the right time. The benefit of having Redox’s already extensive network adds to its value to our growing community of Carequality-enabled sites of care, from nursing homes to behavioral health centers to hospitals and others.”

A great example is EHR vendor PointClickCare that works with Redox to connect PointClickCare’s 21,000 customer sites with the hospitals and care partners in the Carequality framework to enable a seamless data sharing process. Ultimately, for PointClickCare’s customers and their residents, this can accelerate the care transition and reconciliation process and improve outcomes.

Carequality covers more than 65 percent of U.S. providers, allowing healthcare organizations to query across the network to retrieve data with one single business agreement. As a Carequality Implementer, Redox helps active Carequality participants:

●      Join the network and exchange clinical summaries

●      Use a simple API to integrate between Carequality participants and providers

●      Easily add organizations to its directory

●      On-board quickly without having to go through the Carequality certification process

Availability

The Redox API can currently be used to support Basic Carequality capabilities, and Redox has two other programs in development, Gateway and Responder, each of which will reduce an organization’s technical overhead. The Gateway program will intercept queries and pass along only those relevant for that organization. In the Responder program, Redox will not only intercept queries but will respond on the organization’s behalf.

What You Should Know:

– Vonage and Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).

– Together the companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading healthcare data source systems.

Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, has entered into a strategic partnership with Redox Inc., Madison, WI-based integration platform for healthcare data exchange. Vonage and Redox will offer healthcare provider organizations private, embedded, and customizable video capabilities, to build apps, share important medical data, and connect securely with colleagues and patients.

The partnership between Vonage and Redox also gives healthcare providers the ability to connect effectively and privately with patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with electronic health records (EHR) and other leading healthcare data source systems. With healthcare providers turning to telemedicine during the global health crisis, embedding video capabilities into the business applications they are already using is helping them to continue to offer quality medical care for patients without increasing the risk of infection for both patient and doctor.

Integration Benefits

Given the importance of telehealth, this integration partnership could not come at a better time. Together, Vonage and Redox will enable customers to:

– Allowing health professionals to provide care to their patients remotely, in real-time and throughout their treatment;

– Bringing like-minded people together for support group meetings, all from the comfort and privacy of their home;

– Continuing healthcare education through virtual seminars, demonstrations, and webinars;

– Enhancing the capabilities of existing medical devices with real-time communications; and

– Giving patients access to a certified personal trainer in their own home via live video, making it simple and convenient to stay healthy.

“Healthcare provider organizations are looking to reinvent the way they deliver care and engage with patients, as well as the ability to exchange data seamlessly with their core clinical and patient care systems,” says Devin Soelberg, Vice President of Business Development and Partnerships at Redox. “By introducing Vonage and Redox APIs into the healthcare ecosystem, healthcare organizations are modernizing their care delivery infrastructure. Together, Vonage and Redox perfectly complement that path to modernization.”