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eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2025

In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the role they play, particularly in public health, scaling FHIR and TEFCA. eHealth Exchange is working with the industry and with regulators to improve response rates so public health agencies can get the data they need to protect Americans health.

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 23, 2023

Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability. FHIR, the API for automated data sharing, is mature and being adopted. This more recent standard makes trust automatable as well.

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Weekly Roundup – June 25, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 25, 2022

At the same time, Lynn says it was refreshing to hear a technology CEO focus on how a national EHR database would benefit primarily benefit patients and public health efforts. Read more… Where Are We At With FHIR? Finally, the 1upHealth executives address whether we can expect another standard to follow FHIR.

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Enhancing Interoperability and Data Sharing with Innovative Technologies and Standards

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The ONC Cures Act APIs and the companion CMS Access APIs all require these modern FHIR-based technologies and are fundamentally designed to grow a vibrant digital health economy providing choice and value to consumers. These API protocols are known and used by hundreds of thousands of developers.

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Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database as Part of Cerner Acquisition

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 23, 2022

To simplify the question, is Epic going to give Oracle Cerner access to all their health records? I think we all know the answer to that and FHIR and all these other standards won’t get us there either. The second group to benefit from this National EHR Database was public health.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2024

The QHIN community is committed to helping all healthcare organizations achieve connectivity and advancing use cases such as Healthcare Operations, Public Health, and Individual Access Services. TEFCA aims to address both challenges. The foundation for success in both areas lies in the first word of TEFCA – Trust.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. With a master’s degree in Health Policy and Management from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mo formerly served in leadership roles for Cotiviti, FinThrive, and McKinsey & Company.

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

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Hans Buitendijk, Public Health Workgroup Chair & Executive Committee Member at EHR Association At a high level, any interoperability must take place within the context of protecting patient privacy rights, whether from HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, or state laws. TEFCA proposes that the adoption of FHIR access with OAuth2.0

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Bonus Features – March 5, 2023 – Two-thirds of patients connect with regular docs when they need medical care when traveling, half of clinical workflow automation users plan to expand their use, and more

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 5, 2023

News and Research With the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency due to end on May 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration has proposed restrictions on the remote prescription of controlled substances , with only buprenorphine and Schedule III-V non-narcotic controlled medications available via telemedicine, and available only in 30-day supplies.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Many clinical data records can be exchanged between providers and regional public health agencies through health information exchanges. Moving beyond health system-wide or regional interoperability has been a challenge due to several financial and operational hurdles.

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HIPAA Health Information Interoperability EHR

Covid-19 : the defining milestone for technology in healthcare

Lloyd Price

APRIL 30, 2020

You will see businesses who have demonstrated real agility in leadership, strategy, market engagement and most importantly the tech capability to establish a C19 proposition quickly with the end customer in mind.Goldilocks in size, we need scale-ups not startups.

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APRIL 5, 2019

GAO officials tell the House Veterans Affairs Committee that the VA’s poor track record of CIO leadership has harmed its IT modernization projects and will continue to do so. Readers Write: Systems Integration with SMART on FHIR ? Readers Write: File-Sharing And HIPAA – How You Can Keep Health Data Secure in an Era of Collaboration.

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The Challenges and Barriers in Standardized and Secure Data Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

FHIR-based API usage by Payers (Government and Commercial) in the next few years will usher in enriched datasets to TEFCA networks. There is a need for partnership between public-private players to develop patient engagement applications (SMART on FHIR) for better access to data.

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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2023

John Lynn spoke to Mo Weitnauer at MRO about using FHIR-based APIs to automatically fulfill the vast majority of requests in minutes or seconds – not weeks. Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Read more… Healthcare Needs More Gender Diversity in Leadership.

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Benefits and Challenges of Integrating AI and Machine Learning into EHR Systems

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

By streamlining workflows and identifying public health trends, AI fosters better population health management. It automates routine tasks, reduces administrative burdens, and uses predictive analytics to anticipate patient outcomes and improve resource allocation.

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Interoperability Perspectives and Insights from the eHealth Exchange Annual Meeting

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The conference covered a wide range of topics from public health to TEFCA and everything in between. We often hear about the times that health data exchange should be happening, but isn’t yet. Plus, I couldn’t resist the FHIR pun. This roadmap illustrates some of that sentiment.

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TEFCA Is Live – Clarifying Common Misperceptions

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

We are fully invested in using Networked Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) for connecting with payers. With this knowledge, we successfully leveraged the viability of Networked FHIR for prior authorization with UC Davis Health, Regence, and other eHealth Exchange participants.

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Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: Regulatory Mandates for HIT and EHR Vendors Loom for Prior Authorization – Regulatory Talk Series

Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

HTI-2 includes an update to the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) v4, as well as standards and criteria related to public health information exchange and e-prescribingspecifically electronic prior authorization (ePA).

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eHealth Exchange is Promoting Health Record Sharing, Past and Future

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