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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At few times in recent memory has the resolve of hospitals and health systems across the U.S. – and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far.

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In Wisconsin we have Interoperability

Healthcare Exchange Standards

See below an interesting monthly report I get from the Wisconsin HIE. It shows the health of this system. A very healthy and Quality producing HIE: 2.6 This is a Standards based HIE, based on IHE-XDS and XCA. Elimination of HIE-related fees is just one piece of the puzzle for interoperability. Fully federated.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

. "Rwanda’s eHealth Strategic Plan for 2016–2020 is the key driver to economic growth and to improving the lives of people. Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data."

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). One of the resulting papers lists a large number of public sources for SDoH data (pages 26-30).

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

LLC, not- for-profit) including but not limited to local departments of health or social services, behavioral health IPAs and other structures formed by regional participants. Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Elsewhere? Too many. . Too many organizations.