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DirectTrust and EHNAC Announce Merger Agreement

Healthcare IT Today

DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information. DirectTrust is committed to fostering widespread public confidence in the interoperable exchange of health information. About DirectTrust.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Another likely forthcoming requirement that will exacerbate the existing challenges: in the coming years, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will implement the provision for convening providers to incorporate projected costs from co-providers on an estimate for a care episode.

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Telemedicine triage kiosks reduce ER visits by 11% for ACO

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more complex and inefficient. All that information is sent from HealthEC to eClinicalWorks.

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Soon, however, there were signs that COVID-19 has helped push forward some information exchange improvements that could be long-lasting. "The old way of sending transactions, clinical documentation and policy changes transformed overnight." " Value-based care: New impetus for change.

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

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Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology.

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

Health Blawg

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology.

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

Health Blawg

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology.