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Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

eHealth Exchange is launching an incentive program that will waive annual fees for three years to the first five HIEs or state/local public health agencies that agree to exchange public health data. Additionally, 89% of patients said the ability to manage their health in a single platform is as least somewhat important.

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DirectTrust and EHNAC Announce Merger Agreement

Healthcare IT Today

With EHNAC’s incorporation into DirectTrust, DirectTrust anticipates bringing to fruition new accreditation programs, with a program focused on Credential Service Providers related to consumer access and use of health data as an early target.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. Let’s start with the care coordination question.

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How would you like to change HIPAA?

Health Blawg

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. Let’s start with the care coordination question.

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

Health Blawg

Intersecting groups of EHR companies participate in two networks – Carequality and CommonWell – which have the infrastructure necessary to support point of care decisions through national interoperability. Health Care Law and Consulting. The Harlow Group LLC. Comments […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and.

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

Health Blawg

Intersecting groups of EHR companies participate in two networks – Carequality and CommonWell – which have the infrastructure necessary to support point of care decisions through national interoperability. David Harlow The Harlow Group LLC Health Care Law and Consulting Comments […] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and.

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The Top Telehealth Terms to Know

American Well

Apple Health: Apple Health, or Apple HealthKit, is a preinstalled app on Apple Watch and all iOS8 devices that contains an easy-to-read dashboard for a person’s fitness and health data. Our goal is to help you understand how telehealth can work for you and what exactly all these buzzwords mean.