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Weekender 6/7/19

HIStalk Weekender

The six former National Coordinators express their support for the proposed interoperability rules of ONC/CMS. Vendor members of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association raise “significant concerns” about proposed federal rules covering interoperability. million for the property, which the county values at $14 million, in 2011.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Medicare/Medicaid Management One other play that is harder to decipher starts with Amazon’s announcement in March to cut its prime membership for Medicaid recipients by over 50% and CNBC’s announcement that it’s been talking potential collaborations with AARP since 2015. But how easy will it actually be?

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

43 A recent development may offer hope: the federal government’s “meaningful use” requirements for EHR certification are calling for greater interoperability through an emerging data-exchange standard called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow.