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eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

Healthcare IT Today

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. Tell us what you think.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

Just a few weeks ago, CommonWell was announced as one of six applicants—along with eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Systems, Health Gorilla, Kno2 and Konza— accepted to continue in the onboarding process to become a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under TEFCA. I feel it throughout the industry now.

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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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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. Other industries, such as military, defense, finance, and banking, have been ahead of healthcare in their handling of sensitive data. TEFCA proposes that the adoption of FHIR access with OAuth2.0

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Weekly Roundup – March 4, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Andy Oram discussed how adopting FHIR should be a no-brainer for better public health data collection and sharing – and how that must be followed up with standards for what data should be collected and shared. The industry’s concerns about AI aren’t entirely new, but process automation presents a new wrinkle.

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Redox unwraps interoperability in 2024

Redox

Here are some specific reflections: FHIR adoption: We missed the mark on our HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) growth prediction. It certainly is growing, but FHIR has not picked up the steam we had hoped for in 2023. We reflected on that in our recap of 2023 FHIR DevDays. Sadly, he was wrong.

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Weekly Roundup – June 17, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Geri Lynn Baumblatt – herself a caregiver for her aging mother – provided recommendations for how the healthcare industry can better address the needs of the growing caregiver population. Bonus Features for June 11, 2023: Amazon adds FHIR APIs, plus NYU and NVIDIA along with Mayo and Google collaborate on generative AI.