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

Healthcare IT Today

1, 2023, enforcement of the 21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule goes into effect, putting teeth into the much-celebrated law that enables patients to have full access to their personal health data. If history is any indication, many HIEs are underprepared for supplying patients with their health records.

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

Healthcare IT Today

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. Of course, one of the biggest problems they faced was how do you handle identity across all of these various sources, functions, and services?

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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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TEFCA Real Talk

Healthcare IT Today

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. If #TEFCA is going to invite people in and achieve critical mass, of course we are going to do it.” – Matthew Doyle, Epic on why they decided to join TEFCA.

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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.

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Rochester Regional Health is Achieving Interoperability One Practical Byte at a Time

Healthcare IT Today

RRH used Clinical Architecture’s data quality platform to create the bridge between the New York Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and their Epic system. Our clinicians needed that information so it was our job to get it to them.” When the work was done, the lab data seamlessly appeared within Epic.

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Weekly Roundup – August 13, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

Catching Up With Veteran Health IT Leader Zane Burke. Formerly the President of Cerner and the CEO of Livongo Health, current Quantum Health CEO Zane Burke shared his thoughts on the future of care navigation and virtual care with John Lynn. The position is remote, but applicants must reside in Ontario.