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HHS Releases the Information Blocking and Interoperability Final Rule (21st Century Cures Act)

Healthcare IT Today

As expected, HHS together with CMS and ONC have released the 21st Century Cures Act Final rule that most people have been calling the Information Blocking rule and/or the Interoperability Final rule. You can find the blog post announcing the final rule here and the Cures Act final rule landing page here. You can download […].

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Tipping point in Health Interoperability Maturity

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The topic is about a vision of how things could/should be at the point of care because of successful interoperability. Historically discussions in Health IT have been around very basic interoperability fundamentals. These existing Health IT Interoperability are supported by basic security and privacy models.

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Health Consumers Expect Healthcare to be Digital (and Secure), Philips Future Health Index Finds

Health Populi

Among the top obstacles are lack of access to data-sharing systems coupled with lack of interoperability between health IT investments, preference for paper and phone, and data privacy and security concerns. The Dilemma is the risk of “too little” or “too much” health data being shared.

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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries.

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In Wisconsin we have Interoperability

Healthcare Exchange Standards

There is much talk on the blogs about the USA government trepidation around Health Information Exchange interoperability. Elimination of HIE-related fees is just one piece of the puzzle for interoperability. WISHIN's vendor-agnostic, one-to-many architecture advances true interoperability.

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New Series on THCB — The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?

E-CareManagement

That the value created by health care data would be captured by third parties, e.g., large technology companies. policymakers driving toward two seemingly conflicting goals: Broader data interoperability and data sharing, and. The post New Series on THCB — The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy?