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Connected Health Initiative – Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill

Healthcare IT Today

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology. What is CHI?

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From Information Blocking to Information Sharing – A Look at HTI-1 and TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) Final Rule. Patients will have access to data and can share it across healthcare systems.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data. In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years

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News The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health Seven health system IT executives explain how they're strategizing to build on the post-. News How CIOs are prioritizing AI investments for the next 5 years In the first installment of Healthcare IT News' newest feature series, five hospital and health.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. This month, Healthcare IT News, MobiHealthNews and Healthcare Finance News take a look at what all of this means and how technology, as always, is spurring innovative solutions. -- Susan Morse, senior editor, Healthcare Finance News. Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters.

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Weekly Roundup – February 3, 2024

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on this critical topic. Value-based care technology startup Credo Health secured $5.25

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QHINs Will Help Shine a Light on Data Quality

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today had the chance to ask Charlie Harp, CEO of Clinical Architecture , for his perspective via email. Once TEFCA and the QHINs reach critical mass, we will be a much more connected health system. If you receive data that is not semantically interoperable, the best you can do is make it a readable document.