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What Providers Should Know About the ONC Interoperability Rule

May 13, 2022 - The ONC interoperability rule aims to enhance the exchange of electronic health information (EHI) to benefit patients and clinicians alike. In 2016, Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act to drive the electronic access, exchange, and use of health data. The ONC Cures Act Final Rule, published in 2020, implements the interoperability provisions of the Cures Act to promote patient...

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by Hannah Nelson

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by Sarai Rodriguez

On the 18th anniversary of the Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), Deputy National Coordinator Steven Posnack released a statement reflecting on the agency’s past...

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by Hannah Nelson

For Morgan Honea, CEO of CORHIO (a Contexture organization), the value of interoperability between healthcare and dental settings revealed itself during his earlier career running federally qualified health centers (FQHCs). "I've...

NY HIEs Launch SMART on FHIR App to Enhance Interoperability

by Sarai Rodriguez

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IHS Health IT Modernization Focuses on Interoperability Best Practices

by Hannah Nelson

The Indian Health Service (IHS) has begun a multi-year health IT modernization initiative to replace its homegrown EHR platform with a private vendor solution. The IHS is an agency of the Department...

CHIME Launches New Health Technology to Boost Health Information Access

by Sarai Rodriguez

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) recently announced the launch of its new health technology, Digital Health Insights, in an effort to increase health information...

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by Hannah Nelson

Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and other safety-net providers face interoperability challenges that limit their patient data sharing capabilities, according to a new whitepaper published by...

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by Hannah Nelson

On a research mission observing numerous orthopedists years ago, Paul Brient, athenahealth’s chief product officer, said it was almost as if the doctors were doing different things altogether,...

Washington FQHC Adopts EHR Services to Expand Patient Care Access

by Victoria Bailey

Community Health Center of Snohomish County (CHC of Snohomish County), a nonprofit federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Washington state, has adopted EHR services to increase patient access to...

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by Victoria Bailey

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has launched a new initiative that will add to the existing United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and...

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