Key provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act will help transform healthcare interoperability in 2022, according to Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT.
In a HealthAffairs article,...
Hospital alternative payment model (APM) participation was not associated with enhanced interoperability, according to a study published in JAMA Health Forum.
Using American Hospital Association...
Healthcare industry alliance DirectTrust supported more than 945 million direct secure messages during 2021, representing a 31 percent increase over the total number of transactions in 2020.
Since...
CyncHealth, a non-profit health information exchange (HIE) in Nebraska, announced a partnership with HealthEC, a population health management organization, to enhance patient care and clinical...
Patient access to EHR clinical notes has the potential to improve malpractice liability risks, according to a JAMA Network Open op-ed written by Charlotte Blease, PhD of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
Interoperability of Health Level Seven (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) application programming interfaces (APIs) requires health IT developers to publish FHIR endpoints,...
ONC and its Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), The Sequoia Project, Inc., recently announced the publication of the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA) interoperability...
DirectTrust has announced a call for nominations for new directors to help guide the non-profit industry alliance’s health data exchange efforts.
“We are seeking experienced thought...
ONC has called on health IT developers to leverage Inferno, ONC’s testing suite for the “standardized API for patient and population services” certification criterion, to test the...
Chicago-based health IT firm CareAdvisors tapped the CommonWell Health Alliance network to
create an open-source data sharing service to support health equity efforts.
The health IT firm’s...
HEALTHeLINK, the health information exchange (HIE) for Western New York, worked on a total of 83 different projects in 2021 focused on improving data sharing for use cases such as population health...
The healthcare industry needs better data standards to support medical device interoperability, according to an article published in JAMA Health Forum.
The authors noted that much of the existing...
ONC has released the United States Core Data for Interoperability Draft Version 3 (USCDI v3) which includes new data classes that look to advance health equity and public health data...
ONC and its Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), The Sequoia Project, Inc., have announced the publication of the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement (TEFCA) interoperability...
HIPAA data sharing regulations present challenges to cross-sector interoperability for social determinants of health (SDOH) referrals, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed...
Health 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...
Poor data quality and limited interoperability can have devastating effects on healthcare organizations’ financial outcomes, according to new Sage Growth Partners research commissioned by...
EHR interoperability with the same health IT vendor is still far from perfect due to limited data standards adoption, according to a study published in JAMIA.
That said, having EHR implementations...
ONC’s 8th annual update of the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition includes new specifications related to ePrescribing and public health reporting, according to a...
In collaboration with standards development organizations (SDOs) and health IT stakeholders, ONC has released the Project US@ (‘Project USA’) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0 which...
