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QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

CommonWell was formed 11 years ago from a consortium of major EHR vendors to carry out the mandate for interoperable data exchange in the HITECH and Affordable Care Acts. CommonWell has been working with some of these clients to look at innovative data workflows. and their journey to TEFCA. and their journey to TEFCA.

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Looking back on a year of interoperability milestones at eHealth Exchange

Mobi Health News

The health information network's executive director, Jay Nakashima, sees big progress with 21st century Cures Act compliance, TEFCA, data quality, FHIR adoption and information exchange among providers, public health agencies and labs.

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Security of #FHIR implementations concerns

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Security Report: " The New Healthcare Ecosystem will depend on FHIR APis, but Are They Secure? The point we should take from this research is that EHRs are doing a good job of securing their FHIR implementations FHIR is good and worthy There is room for improvement in some implementations There are included recommended improvements.

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

The optometrist printed his report that I would bring to my next PCP exam, because otherwise my optometrist had no reliable way to transfer the data. clinicians, as estimated by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance. Many other health IT firms have joined CommonWell since then.

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Public Health is a PurposeOfUse -- PUBHLTH

Healthcare Exchange Standards

As I covered in yesterdays article, PurposeOfUse is a critical prime vector that a data custodian will use to make access control decisions. Where PurposeOfUse is the intended reason the data is needed, and equally the restriction on how the data can be used. or more kinds of data that can be requested?

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Why Isn’t Health Data Available Where It’s Needed Including Public Health?

Healthcare IT Today

I often talk to patients who wonder why their healthcare data isn’t following them. Many patients just assume that the healthcare interoperability problem has been solved and that the data from their doctor or a lab or imaging center is going to be shared between doctors, specialists, and whomever needs it in healthcare.

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Roundup: Telehealth providers needed in rural New Zealand and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telstra Health unveils FHIR-native virtual care platform Telstra Health has introduced a new FHIR-based virtual care solution, Virtual Health Platform. It simplifies healthcare interoperability by doing away with translating data, "significantly" reducing implementation time.