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Many Hospitals Still Holding Out On Direct Health Information Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

So, after investing what feels like infinite levels of effort, patient medical records are digitized across nearly all hospitals in the US, according to a new ONC Data Brief.

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Health Privacy and Security in the Time of TEFCA: Raising the Bar for Trusted Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

As with many things, there are degrees – and when it comes to health data, you can never be too private or too secure. By creating an on-ramp for the superhighway of nationwide health data exchange, TEFCA makes sure patient records follow the patient wherever they go. million in 2019 to 28.5