Integration & Interoperability News

Data Segmentation Challenges Impede Pediatric Data Sharing, Confidentiality

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Barriers to pediatric data sharing include data segmentation and technical infeasibility, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter. The Information Blocking Final Rule of the 21st Century...

Improved SDOH Data Collection, Interoperability Needed for Health Equity

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The industry must improve health data collection and interoperability to support health equity, according to expert panelists at an ONC Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) hearing...

Greater Collaboration Needed for Digital Health, Interoperability

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While ONC has made significant progress toward achieving national health interoperability, continued interagency collaboration and public-private partnerships are needed to fully enable digital health,...

Epic EHR Integration Expands Patient Access to Genetic Testing

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Epic Systems has announced a partnership with genetic testing and precision medicine company, Myriad Genetics, to support an Epic EHR integration to drive patient access to genetic testing. Through...

Medicare Needs Increased Interoperability for MA Data Exchange

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Medicare must go further to enhance interoperability and support data exchange with Medicare Advantage, according to a Health Affairs article. While Medicare has driven the evolution of data exchange,...

FAST Becomes an HL7 FHIR Accelerator, Enhancing FHIR Scalability

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The HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) at Scale Taskforce (FAST) initiative will continue its scalability work as an official HL7 FHIR Accelerator, a recent HealthITBuzz blog post...

New England HIE Collaboration Enables Regional Interoperability

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HealthInfoNet, the statewide health information exchange (HIE) in Maine, joined an HIE collaboration with The Rhode Island Quality Institute (RIQI) and VITL (Vermont), which is set to boost regional...

How FHIR APIs Can Support Genomic Data Sharing for Research, Patient Care

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Phase four of ONC’s Sync for Genes program revealed that Health Level Seven International (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) application programming interfaces (APIs) can...

EHR Vendor Epic Announces Plan to Join TEFCA Interoperability Network

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EHR vendor Epic has announced its plan to join The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), a new health information exchange framework that is set to improve health data...

Paper-Based Dental Data Sharing Hampers Patient Safety, Outcomes

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While data sharing between physicians and dentists is critical for patient safety, it typically takes a week or more for dentists to receive EHR data for a patient, according to a study published in...

APIs Need to Enhance Clinical Workflows, Improve Patient Care

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Healthcare providers and patients are seeking APIs and apps that can improve clinical workflows and enhance patient care processes, according to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT...

Affiliation Agreement with HEALTHeLINK Focuses on Health Disparities

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HEALTHeLINK, the health information exchange (HIE) for Western New York, has announced a new affiliation agreement with Population Health Collaborative (PHC) to reduce health disparities impacting the...

EHR Integration Boosts Primary Care Clinician PDMP Query Rate

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EHR integration of a prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) increased primary care clinician adherence to recommended prescribing practices for controlled substances such as opioids,...

eHealth Exchange Reaches 1 Billion HIE Transactions Per Month

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eHealth Exchange, a health information exchange (HIE), announced that the eHealth Exchange Hub platform surpassed one billion requests processed for the first month ever in May 2022. eHealth...

Variation in LOINC Code Adoption Impedes Lab Data Interoperability

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Variation in the adoption of Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) codes has hampered laboratory data interoperability, according to a study published in JAMIA. The objective of the...

CommonWell Hosts Connectathon to Test FHIR Discrete Data Exchange

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CommonWell Health Alliance hosted a connectathon with 11 of its members to test its Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) services as it works to develop the next generation of FHIR for...

Biden 2023 Budget Proposes Advisory Opinions for Information Blocking

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In the 2023 budget proposal, the Biden-Harris Administration has requested that Congress provide HHS with the authority to issue a binding advisory opinion for information blocking regulations, ONC...

DirectTrust Gains ANSI Approval for ADT Event Notifications Data Standard

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DirectTrust announced that the Event Notifications via the Direct Standard has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a national data standard. DirectTrust developed...

Montana Governor Announces $20M Investment in State HIE

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Governor Greg Gianforte has announced a $20 million investment in Montana’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), Big Sky Care Connect (BSCC). BSCC is a platform that allows...