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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. Plus, I couldn’t resist the FHIR pun.

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eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

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eHealth Exchange , a non-profit started by Health & Human Services and now a separate non-profit, helps health care institutions exchange over two billion records a month. In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA.

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TEFCA Is Live – Clarifying Common Misperceptions

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The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Change is scary. At eHealth Exchange, which is one of the first Qualified Health Information Networks™ (QHINs™) under TEFCA, we have a front-row seat to the framework’s ongoing implementation. But we believe that is a mistake.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is indeed an instance of transformational change. We’re building the next generation of FHIR into our services—and looking ahead to create new use cases for care settings that are still untapped. billion documents to date.

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

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While that may not affect an individual patient whose data is included in the data set, it affects patient outcomes overall because it allows us to analyze the data and provide early interventions and programs. Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Keeping patient data safe and private is our top priority.

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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

Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange We continue to move closer to realizing the dream of complete interoperability, and TEFCA is a big part of that. With TEFCA, Designated QHINs are the dynamic force in the seamless sharing of health data among healthcare industry providers and organizations to improve patient outcomes.

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Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

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Don Rucker, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth The entire digital app world is powered by APIs, which allow computation on individual data fields – your check deposit amount, real-time weather, and your seat on the airplane. These API protocols are known and used by hundreds of thousands of developers.