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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. Tell us what you think.
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. ON THE RECORD.
If you’ve worked in EHR and health IT, then you’ve almost certainly heard of Micky Tripathi. One of the early people involved with trying to encourage EHR adoption and interoperability of records, he’s had a big influence on the EHR industry and interoperability as we know it.
The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange An FDA project aims to make it as easy as possible for clinicians to report adverse drug events and share important clinical data with public health agencies to investigate the event.
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.
This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers.
This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central.
By maintaining and evolving HEDIS measures, NCQA helps standardize the collection and reporting of critical data across health plans and providers, ensuring consistency and comparability nationwide. This work supports broader efforts to modernize healthcare and drives interoperability.
Home care visit verification platform leverages FHIR Health tech startup didgUgo is set to provide IT system interoperability to its partners who use its care visit verification solution. The company partnered with InterSystems to adopt the IRIS for Health platform to offer interoperability based on FHIR standards.
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.
This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central.
This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. As always, you can search our Health IT job board for a variety of jobs from leading companies in the industry. Today, we’re featuring the Healthcare Data Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central.
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We talk a lot about sharing data and how it will improve patient outcomes and interoperability, but do we talk enough about how to do it safely? Most of the data that we are looking to share is highly sensitive health information, the kind of information that cybercriminals love to hold for ransom. So many good answers here!
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Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.
Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.
Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.
Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.
Following the announcement of implementation of the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability collaboration, I was fortunate enough to catch up with Micky Tripathi ( @mickytripathi1 ) to discuss this development and put it in context. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.
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