Health Information Exchanges Report Information Blocking
Despite widespread disapproval and Congressional scrutiny, information blocking remains a problem for health information exchanges working to connect providers and their EHR systems. Drawing data from...
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Halamka on the Most Important Interoperability Story of 2016
You may have missed or not understood the implications of this press release. Here's a guest post from Micky Tripathi, the CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative that explains everything you...
View ArticleFHIR And The Future Of Interoperability
There is growing interest in the health care information technology community in an emerging data exchange technology known as FHIR (pronounced “fire”)...Read more in the full article.read more
View ArticleFeds Seek To Educate Patients On Info Sharing
Using a combination of guidelines and open-source software, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is trying to encourage healthcare organizations to obtain "meaningful consent" as part of...
View ArticleFederal ‘Biosurveillance’ Plan Seeking Direct Access To Americans’ Private...
The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of...
View ArticleDo Epic And Interoperability Interface? Depends On Whom You Ask
The nation’s largest electronic medical record vendor has an image problem. Verona, Wis.-based Epic has come under fire this year over its lack of interoperability, spurring the company, once well...
View ArticleDirectTrust Delivers Interoperable Messaging To Healthcare
The nonprofit industry alliance DirectTrust hopes its voluntary accreditation and audit program, digital certificates, and relationship with the federal government will encourage more health...
View ArticleDespite $600 Million From Stimulus, Jury Out On Health Information Exchanges
Despite $600 million in federal dollars allocated to creating health information exchanges designed to facilitate sharing of patient medical information, more work needs to be done to show whether they...
View ArticleDeSalvo Unveils ONC Plans For Health IT Beyond HITECH Act
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is preparing itself for the next era of health IT adoption, one that will not rely primarily on financial incentives for...
View ArticleCommonWell: Healthcare Interoperability Or Bust
Peter Bernhardt of CommonWell Health Alliance, a group of clinical and health IT organizations, talks about its goal of better data exchange and application integration...Read more in the full...
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CMS To Invest $5+ Billion a Year in Open Source and Cloud-based IT...
After more than 40 years of relying on monolithic mainframe platforms to administer its services, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has embraced a new modular, open and agile...
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Cal INDEX and Inland Empire HIE Will Merge to Form California's Largest...
Cal INDEX January 17, 2017Original URLThe California Integrated Data Exchange (Cal INDEX) and Inland Empire Health Information Exchange (IEHIE) today announced a planned merger that will create one of...
View ArticleAssessment Released Of Health Information Exchanges (Part 2 of 2)
The previous installment of this article talked about the survivability of HIEs, drawing on a report released under ONC auspices. This installment delves into some other interesting aspects of...
View ArticleAssessment Released Of Health Information Exchanges (Part 1 Of 2)
Like my Boston-area neighbors who perennially agonize over the performance of the Red Sox, healthcare advocates spend inordinate amounts of time worrying about Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Will...
View ArticleWhat If EMRs Worked Like Wikipedia?
I’ve been thinking about EMRs, electronic medical records, lately. It’s a subject, despite some professional experience, I don’t feel particularly close to...And, as a patient I see them largely as an...
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Closing the Referral Problem in Distributed Care Networks
There have been any number of people and companies working tirelessly to solve healthcare's interoperability challenges. Hospitals, EHR software companies, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), Federal...
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AHRQ Releases Draft Guide for Registry Interoperability: Does Public Health...
On January 11, 2019, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a draft Addendum to the Third Edition of Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes: A User's Guide called Tool and...
View ArticleFeds Seek To Educate Patients On Info Sharing
Using a combination of guidelines and open-source software, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is trying to encourage healthcare organizations to obtain "meaningful consent" as part of...
View ArticleFederal ‘Biosurveillance’ Plan Seeking Direct Access To Americans’ Private...
The federal government is piecing together a sweeping national “biosurveillance” system that will give bureaucrats near real-time access to Americans’ private medical information in the name of...
View ArticleDo Epic And Interoperability Interface? Depends On Whom You Ask
The nation’s largest electronic medical record vendor has an image problem. Verona, Wis.-based Epic has come under fire this year over its lack of interoperability, spurring the company, once well...
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