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

Healthcare IT Today

Thanks to the regulations included as part of meaningful use, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), every healthcare provider using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) has access to Direct Secure Messaging.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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From Paper to Pixels: The Future is Bright for Health Information Management

Healthcare IT Today

Jennifer Mueller, President of the American Health Information Management Association ( AHIMA ), sees a bright future for the HIM industry. Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data.

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Unifying the Healthcare Assembly Line

Mobile Health Matters

Instead, value-based care lays the foundation for a future where all industry stakeholders must collaborate in a new way, putting meaning and action behind the abundance of patient data. The Aftermath of the EMR Gold Rush.

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Featured Health IT Job: Healthcare Data Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

NYeC supports providers in navigating the complex landscape of healthcare information technology provider assistance programs, practice transformation, vendor selection, Promoting Interoperability (formerly Meaningful Use) attestation, and health information exchange utilization.

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Who will regulate mHealth? Patient Engagement at Crossroads; New Alliance Takes On Interoperability

Chilmark Research

As we’ve reported in a previous post , HIMSS13 afforded enormous buzz and less enlightenment regarding the state of health IT, particularly the four key areas we see as essential to this industry making a true difference in patient care. The group’s stated purpose is to enable interoperability across the five founding members’ EHRs.

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API mania misses the point on healthcare interoperability

Import Immunity

My plan was to just go quietly into the night, but looking through the recently-released Meaningful Use 3 requirements convinced me that I really ought to put this out there. Industry solved this dilemma by creating a false measure of success — the Connectathon. But old-school interoperability just punted on the problem.