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Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

Healthcare IT Today

USCDI v3 includes updates to prior USCDI versions focused on advancing more accurate and complete patient characteristics data that could help promote equity, reduce disparities, and support public health data interoperability.

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

BMC Public Health. WHO Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. Telemedicine: opportunities and developments in Member States: report on the second global survey on eHealth. Global Observatory for eHealth Series, 2). Telehealth and eHealth in nurse practitioner training: current perspectives. Monagesh et al.

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The Balance Between Promoting Data Sharing and Ensuring the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Keeping patient data safe and private is our top priority. We address the privacy and security of sensitive health data in two ways. A clear definition of what is considered sensitive information subject to such rules and directives has not yet been established.

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The Role of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) in Facilitating Seamless Data Sharing Among Healthcare Entities

Healthcare IT Today

The QHIN community is committed to helping all healthcare organizations achieve connectivity and advancing use cases such as Healthcare Operations, Public Health, and Individual Access Services. eHealth Exchange is proud to be one of the first Designated QHINs.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

By focusing on medical definitions of success (generally expressed as HEDIS measures), the program medicalized social problems and failed to explicitly recognize the significant role that social determinants play in the health of our communities. Did this happen everywhere? This was a minority of PPS. But it happened. Elsewhere?

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

” An additional definition of the verb is, “ to feel or exhibit anger or revulsion.” Reviewing that list, starting with the great Dr. Tom Ferguson, one of Susannah’s mentors and many of our early role models working in what we then called eHealth, was a sweet d éjà vu.

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Interoperability Perspectives and Insights from the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting

Healthcare IT Today

This week I had a chance to attend the eHealth Exchange Annual meeting to learn more about what’s happening with their network along with a wide variety of inteorperability topics. The conference covered a wide range of topics from public health to TEFCA and everything in between.

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