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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. He is also looking forward to wider adoption of FHIR, which eHealth Exchange has been working with since 2017. Tell us what you think.

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Lessons Learned from Micky Tripathi and the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)

Healthcare IT Today

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. As CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC) […].

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Trust Is Not A Trend

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Trust is foundational to successful nationwide healthcare interoperability. As the oldest national health information network, eHealth Exchange sees its commitment to trust and transparency as paramount to successful interoperability.

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HealthTech.Belgium: Speeding up innovation in Europe

Mobi Health News

A new government-funded initiative officially launched in Belgium this year to help medtech and eHealth projects get access to the support needed to advance their work, called HealthTech.Belgium.

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TEFCA’s Moment and Policy Changes on the Horizon: A Conversation with Eric Musser at NCQA

Healthcare IT Today

As such, they are uniquely positioned to both influence policymakers and help the healthcare industry adapt to policy changes. Musser highlighted that TEFCA (Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement) is gaining momentum as more industry players, like Oracle and Epic, commit to becoming Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs).

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Healthcare Just Got SMAC’ed – Accenture’s Post-Digital Era for Health

Health Populi

Social, mobile, analytics and the cloud now underpin the health care industry. The AI part of “SMAQ” is one of the tools the health care industry will increasingly use to personalize, customize, and “immediate-ize” health care across the continuum, from wellness and fitness to acute care and rehabilitation.

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Congress should include telehealth in year-end funding, say ATA, HIMSS

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. That flexibility, in turn, shed light on how arbitrary some of those restrictions were.