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North Carolina launches new stroke registry linked to NC HealthConnex

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority, housed within the state's Department of Information Technology, announced this week that it's working North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to launch the N.C. Stroke Registry.

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How to TEFCA with Redox

Redox

TEFCA outlines a common set of principles, terms, and conditions to enable the nationwide exchange of health information across disparate health information networks (HINs). As such, it provides a foundation for healthcare to overcome many of the interoperability challenges that plague it.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Defining and Sharing

Healthcare IT Today

A roundtable cohosted by Department of Health and Human services issued a report in December 2019 listing about two dozen data elements (pages 43-44), such as eligibility for social programs, air quality, and exposure to violence. The modern health information API, FHIR, includes the Gender Harmony taxonomy developed by HL7.

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Patient Identity Management the IHE way

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Most important, this is not an interoperability problem Nationwide Patient Identity Management, especially in a federation like the USA, is a balance between quality, privacy, and safety. Where health data are involved, mistakes in identity can be a permanent privacy violation. Here are the IHE relevant works on the topic of Patient.