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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

As data sharing initiatives gain momentum, including TEFCA nationally and the Data Exchange Framework in California, it’s an important reminder that data sharing advancement is more than a policy or technological discussion. Data sharing decisions impact the care that patients receive every day.

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

Healthcare IT Today

While that may not affect an individual patient whose data is included in the data set, it affects patient outcomes overall because it allows us to analyze the data and provide early interventions and programs. Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange Keeping patient data safe and private is our top priority.

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Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. As the industry standard, Direct Secure Messaging continues to expand nationally.

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Weekly Roundup – September 30, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

They also touched on the role of health data utilities as the evolution of the state HIE. Laura Marquez at the University of Utah Health outlined how to define success in digital transformation in healthcare and shared her thoughts on how AI will impact transformation. Cynthia Casatelli at e4.health

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Weekly Roundup – April 6, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… Bringing Contextualized Health Data into Diagnosis and Treatment. John sat down with Dr. Paulo Pinho at Discern Health and Dr. Tim O’Connell at emtelligent to learn about the importance of summarizing unstructured information and the role of automation in supporting this key step.

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Basic Consent - a necessary first step

Healthcare Exchange Standards

There are many standards efforts to develop support for Patient directed Authorization to their health data. All policies are global within the HIE such that an Opt-Out or Opt-In captured at one location covers all HIE member organizations. I will be writing a few articles about these efforts. Table 10.2.3-1 38571.2.1.3.1

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California says goodbye to fax machines. Hello to DxF.

Redox

Is this just another HIE? A few features of the CA DxF set it apart from traditional health information exchanges (HIEs) and networks (HINs). Notably: Data sharing purposes Other data-sharing networks like Carequality are largely limited to “Treatment” purposes. access to housing and food) is less common.

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