The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2022-2026 aligns with the 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and focuses on improving patient access to...
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) recently submitted a letter responding to an ONC electronic prior authorization (ePA) request for information, noting that the ePA component of the...
The eHealth Exchange, a health information exchange, has announced the launch of a competitive grant program to encourage health IT innovation by offering up to $550,000 to organizations pursuing...
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) and HITRUST have announced a partnership to strengthen the health data security framework of the Trusted Network Accreditation Program...
InterSystems has announced the release of its HealthShare Health Connect Cloud, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that aims to streamline data integration and interoperability between clinical systems and...
Several health IT vendors have announced new interoperability partnerships and offerings at the 2022 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Global Health Conference and...
Healthcare interoperability is gaining momentum, according to the Surescripts 2021 National Progress Report, which revealed significant increases in the use of clinical direct messaging and...
DirectTrust has launched an initiative to develop a new data standard to support a voluntary nationwide patient matching ecosystem.
The Privacy-Enhancing Health Record Locator Service (PEHRLS)...
Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) has awarded organizations in Nebraska, New Mexico, Georgia, Utah, and Connecticut funding to support community partnerships with the state or local...
Cerner’s CEO David Feinberg, MD, hired in August of last year, was a keynote speaker at ViVE’s healthcare information technology conference this week. He used the time to tout the...
Health IT developers are making steady progress in fulfilling the new privacy and security certification criteria for the 2015 Edition Cures Update, according to a HealthITBuzz blog post written by ONC...
Health IT vendor MedAllies has announced it has joined the Carequality interoperability framework, becoming a Carequality implementer to enable patient data sharing for better...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has partnered with health IT vendor Veradigm, a business unit of Allscripts, in an effort to support EHR interoperability for disability claims.
Every year,...
Healthcare industry alliance DirectTrust has added cloud-based health IT vendor etherFAX to its interoperability network.
etherFAX supports data sharing from various applications and endpoint...
Patients have submitted the vast majority of information blocking claims since the ONC interoperability rule went into effect in April 2021, according to ONC data.
The 21st Century Cures Act prompted...
The Sequoia Project’s Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup (EPIW) has published a free whitepaper that outlines public health recommendations based on lessons learned from COVID-19...
Health Current, Arizona’s health information exchange (HIE), has announced the launch of an online resource to accompany the new statewide advance directives registry.
The Arizona Healthcare...
The California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) is halfway complete with the development of a data exchange framework that aims to advance health equity, according to a blog post written by...
Pennsylvania’s state health information exchange (HIE) has added Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) to its data sharing network, according to reporting from The Reading Eagle.
As a Pennsylvania...
Civitas Networks for Health and DirectTrust announced a joint conference, The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, to share ideas with...
