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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. This roadmap illustrates some of that sentiment.

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Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative dissolves, saying 'work completed'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives.

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Mission Critical: Utilizing Technology to Advance Healthcare Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dan Torrens , CEO at eHealth Technologies Health information management teams everywhere are constantly doing more, but somehow it always feels like playing catch up. Notably, between 30 and 47 percent of U.S. hospitals still rely on fax or mail to send and receive patient records.

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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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Do We Misunderstand the Scope of the Interoperability Need?

Healthcare IT Today

For quite a while now I’ve had this cognitive dissonance in my head about healthcare interoperability. On the one hand, I’d see all these announcements about the success of interoperability projects and the literally millions and billions of health records and data that’s being shared.

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Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

There are a lot of components to consider and talk about in regards to interoperability and data sharing. Today we are going to focus on the innovative technologies and standards that are currently being employed to make our dreams of a better system of interoperability and data sharing a reality.

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TEFCA Is Live – Clarifying Common Misperceptions

Healthcare IT Today

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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