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TEFCA, QHINs, HDUs, and Interoperability with Civitas CEO Lisa Bari

Healthcare IT Today

Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care including community organizations are members as well.

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Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management

Healthcare IT Today

When you look at how much data is passing through Healthix, it’s kind of hard to comprehend. 50 million patients with 105+ million inbound data is a lot of health data. It’s always interesting to see how an HIE is approaching their exchange of data.

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Health Data Federalism vs States Data

Healthcare IT Today

I’m happy to say that it’s lived up to billing with an incredible group of people who understand the challenges of health data exchange. Their discussion was prompted by this paper that was published on “Health Data Federalism.” Nothing like reading a Twitter thread cliff notes version of a paper.

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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

@paul_wilder #TEFCA #RealTalk #HIMSS23 pic.twitter.com/GRX4ewwAWv — CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell) April 18, 2023 Matt Doyle from Epic offered a couple views into why Epic has decided to become a QHIN and support TEFCA. “If There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem. Who’s hungry?

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QHIN Reactions at the ONC Annual Meeting

Healthcare IT Today

They’re right in many ways when it comes to the health data sharing that’s already occurring and the limitations for what QHINs are going to share to start. QHINs on their own aren’t going to full solve the data sharing problem. Of course, the proof is really in the pudding.

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Going the Extra Mile to Support Patient Access Is a Win-Win for Patients and HIE Compliance

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Deven McGraw , Co-Founder of Ciitizen® and Lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae Corporation HIEs and HINs Should take Key Actions Now to Prepare for the Enforcement of the Information Blocking Rules On Sept. Of course, there are also financial concerns to consider, too.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Of course, it seems crazy that the health IT incentives and Meaningful Use didn’t mandate interoperability; and the last few years of health IT development might have gone differently if interoperability were required before the 21st Century Cures Act mandated it and made data blocking illegal, but we are now looking forward, not backward.