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Category: Healthcare Industry News
Partnership to Leverage Three New England HIEs' Strengths
Date: June 22nd, 2022Source: Healthcare InnovationTopics: HIE, Interoperability, mergerIn an era of health information exchange consolidation, the HIEs in Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont have announced a collaboration aimed at advancing interstate interoperability to improve population health and patient care in and across each of the New England communities they serve.
Read MorePaper-Based Dental Data Sharing Hampers Patient Safety, Outcomes
Date: June 20th, 2022Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, DentalAn NIH-funded study will examine how community health information exchanges (HIEs) could support dental data sharing for patient safety.
Read MoreSocial Determinants of Health in Healthcare IT Standards
Date: May 10th, 2022Source: Audacious InquiryTopics: Health IT, Social Determinants of Health, ONC, health equityOver the past few years, the role that social determinants of health (SDOH) plays in healthcare and health outcomes has become widely recognized throughout all aspects of the healthcare industry. As such, organizations in the United States and around the world have highlighted the need for SDOH information to be included in a patient’s health record to better treat the patient on a holistic basis, using a more “whole-person” approach to healthcare.
Read MoreTripathi: 2022 Pivotal for Digital Health Transformation, Health IT
Date: April 20th, 2022Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: Interoperability, TEFCA, ONCAt the virtual ONC annual meeting on April 13, Tripathi discussed initiatives that are helping to push the digital health transformation forward.
Read MoreHow hospitals are navigating doctor, patient interoperability challenges
Date: April 19th, 2022Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Interoperability, 21st Century Cures Act, ONCThe long-awaited regulations, requirements of 2016’s landmark 21st Century Cures Act, have been expected to force a “culture change” in healthcare, according to Micky Tripathi, who leads the Health and Human Services Department agency tasked with implementing many of the Cures Act’s data-sharing requirements.
Read MoreIncreasing access and equity in healthcare through AI
Date: April 13th, 2022Source: Med City NewsTopics: Interoperability, Artificial Intelligence, health equityWhile many healthcare companies have used artificial intelligence for some time now for features like machine learning interpretability required by the healthcare industry for compliance purposes, AI-based healthcare solutions also have the potential to make healthcare more affordable and more accessible, thus helping to improve equity in healthcare.
Read MoreEHR Integration Boosts Inpatient Clinical Documentation of Care Goals
Date: April 5th, 2022Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: EHRs, Health ITA communication-priming EHR integration helped increase clinical documentation of care goals for hospitalized patients with serious illnesses.
Read MoreHIMSS22: Five HIE Myths Dismissed
Date: March 16th, 2022Source: Healthcare InnovationTopics: HIE, HIMSSIn a March 16 session at HIMSS22, two speakers dispelled five myths that are obstructing the health information exchange evolution.
Read MoreAn Upcoming Milestone in Our Interoperability Journey
Date: March 14th, 2022Source: Health IT AnswersTopics: Health IT, Interoperability, 21st Century Cures Act, ONCUnder ONC’s final rules, health IT developers of certified health IT (certified health IT developers) whose products are certified to the applicable criteria are required to provide these new functionalities to their customers by December 31, 2022. And so far, while the industry has gotten a start, a lot of certification action will happen in the coming months
Read MoreHow Health Data Standards Support Healthcare Interoperability
Date: March 8th, 2022Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, Meaningful Use, Interoperability, ONC, Promoting InteroperabilityAs organizations move closer to the goal of universal semantic interoperability, communication between healthcare organization leadership, providers, EHR vendors, and federal entities will be vital for creating a meaningful data exchange environment that supports the delivery of high-quality care.
Read MoreStudy examines ‘haves and have-nots’ of health information exchanges
Date: March 7th, 2022Source: UBNowTopics: HIE, Social Determinants of Health, health equityHealth information exchanges increase patient referrals among participating doctors, but that increase may be at the expense of physicians who aren’t part of the exchange, according to a new study.
Read MoreCMS to reweigh data for some physicians amid the pandemic
Date: March 1st, 2022Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), COVID-19The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is giving physician groups participating in its Merit-based Incentive Payment System more time to apply for an extreme and uncontrollable circumstance waiver so that 2021 quality data has less of a chance of negatively impacting their payments.
Read MoreHealthcare Interoperability in 2022: Looking Forward and Back to Shape What’s Ahead
Date: February 14th, 2022Source: Audacious InquiryTopics: HIE, Interoperability, TEFCAIf the first month of 2022 is preview for how the rest of the year will shape up, we are in for an exciting ride on the healthcare interoperability track.
Read MoreHow Analytics Can Inform EHR Workflow Optimization, Clinician Burden
Date: January 24th, 2022Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: EHRsAdvanced text analytics of EHR inbox messages could help guide EHR workflow optimization to mitigate clinician burden.
Read MoreTEFCA Go-Live: Everything You Need to Know as ONC Prepares for a New Era of Health Information Exchange
Date: January 19th, 2022Source: Audacious InquiryTopics: HIE, Interoperability, TEFCA, ONC, QHINsOn January 18th, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Recognized Coordinating Entity, the Sequoia Project (“RCE”), pushed TEFCA forward in a major way with the release of the initial Common Agreement, QHIN Technical Framework (QTF), a subset of the initial Standard Operating Procedures, and a three-year roadmap for incorporating FHIR into TEFCA.
Read MoreTEFCA, framework for nationwide health info exchange, now live from ONC
Date: January 19th, 2022Source: Healthcare IT NewsTopics: Interoperability, TEFCA, ONCThe agency this week also made the draft version 3 of United States Data for Core Interoperability available for public comment.
Read MoreONC, Sequoia Project issue TEFCA requirements
Date: January 18th, 2022Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: HIE, Interoperability, TEFCA, ONC, QHINsThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, an interoperability project mandated as part of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Read MoreHow To Get Health Data Infrastructure Right For This Moment Of Medicaid Transformation
Date: January 18th, 2022Source: Health AffairsTopics: HIE, COVID-19, Data exchange, MedicaidToday, 82.8 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid, a dramatic 16 percent increase from before the pandemic. We are at an inflection point. Can our Medicaid systems build the health data infrastructure needed to reach ambitious improvement goals? Increasingly, and hopefully, the answer is yes.
Read MoreHow HIE EHR Data Can Measure Disease Trends, Support Public Health
Date: January 14th, 2022Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, InteroperabilityHealth information exchange (HIE) data can effectively measure epidemiological trends for pediatric asthma, according to a study published in the Journal of Asthma that points to the potential public health benefits of EHR data sharing.
Read MorePediatric asthma study demonstrates use of health information exchange data to signal childhood disease
Date: January 12th, 2022Source: Medical XpressTopics: HIE, Interoperability, Data exchangeA new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine researchers has determined that data from a large regional health information exchange (HIE) can effectively measure epidemiological trends for pediatric asthma and could enable public health researchers and officials to follow and respond to disease trends in near real time.
Read MoreONC Adds Public Health Reporting Specifications to Interoperability Guidance
Date: January 11th, 2022Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: Interoperability, Public Health, COVID-19, ONCThe ONC has added health IT specifications for ePrescribing and public health reporting to its Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition.
Read MoreONC issues data standard for patient addresses, urges industry adoption
Date: January 7th, 2022Source: Modern HealthcareTopics: Health IT, Interoperability, Patient Matching, ONC, Patient IDThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Friday released the final version of Project US@, a technical specification designed as an industrywide data standard for patient addresses. ONC has been working on Project US@ with standards development and health IT organizations since launching the effort in early 2021.
Read MoreIT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022
Date: January 4th, 2022Source: Healthcare IT NewsTopics: Health IT, Patient Engagement, Population HealthPatient and provider experiences have to be top-of-mind in the year ahead, with special attention to stressed hospital workers and underserved populations, healthcare vendor leaders say.
Read More5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System
Date: December 15th, 2021Source: Harvard Business ReviewTopics: Value-Based Care, Behavioral Health, Telehealth, COVID-19, health equityIn this article, the CEO of Intermountain Healthcare describes five priorities to fix the system. They include: focus on prevention, not just treating sickness; tackle racial disparities; expand telehealth and in-home services; build integrated systems; and adopt value-based care.
Read MoreColorado Health IT Roadmap Outlines HIE, Interoperability Goals
Date: December 9th, 2021Source: EHR IntelligenceTopics: HIE, Care Coordination, Interoperability, OeHIAn updated health IT roadmap outlines several initiatives that aim to boost interoperability across the state for improved care coordination.
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