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HHS STAR HIE Program Funds 5 Organizations To Improve Interoperability

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces that five cooperative agreements to health information exchange organizations (HIEs) to help support state and local public health agencies in their efforts to respond to […].

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Weekly Roundup – June 25, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. At the same time, Lynn says it was refreshing to hear a technology CEO focus on how a national EHR database would benefit primarily benefit patients and public health efforts.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. Automated chart retrieval is performed at scale, leveraging modern HL7 FHIR APIs. But the industry isn’t there yet and significant gaps remain.

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Weekender 5/17/19

HIStalk Weekender

Former National Coordinator David Brailer, MD, PhD urges support for HHS’s proposed interoperability rules, saying that the federal incentive program should have made sure that EHRs could share information and defined medical information as belonging to the patient. Best Reader Comments. Was a Community CIO ). Disruption Please ).

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