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10 Healthcare Organizations Ask HHS to Postpone Information Blocking Deadline

Healthcare IT Today

If you’re familiar with the 21st Century Cures Act, then you know that October 6th is a major deadline that requires healthcare providers, health IT developers, HIEs, HINs, and others to share all ePHI (electronic protected health information) in the DRS (Designated Record Set).

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Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

The FTC is continuing its crackdown on companies that share healthcare data inappropriately. Anne Zieger summarized the agency’s order demanding that BetterHelp stop sharing patients’ data, including mental health data, with third parties such as Facebook and Snapchat. The FTC also seeks $7.8

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Micky Tripathi’s glass-half-full view of EHR interoperability – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

State and regional health information exchanges mostly look like they were experiments in applying public utility model – which could only work in a few key markets where conditions are just right. In December 2016 they agreed to build a bridge between the two systems so that folks on either network could access records on both networks.

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Micky Tripathi’s glass-half-full view of EHR interoperability – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

State and regional health information exchanges mostly look like they were experiments in applying public utility model – which could only work in a few key markets where conditions are just right. In December 2016 they agreed to build a bridge between the two systems so that folks on either network could access records on both networks.

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Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don’t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more

Healthcare IT Today

The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. The Sequoia Project published an implementation guide for HIE technology for vendors, networks, and testers. In addition, Quantum Health formed an Oncology Clinical Advisory Board.

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