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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

Guillermo Diaz, Chief Medical Information Officer at Los Angeles Department of Health Services – Ambulatory Care Network , and Ali Modaressi, CEO at Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES) When Alex was brought into L.A. Data sharing decisions impact the care that patients receive every day.

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Featured Health IT Job: Senior Solutions Architect – HIE

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Today, we’re featuring the Senior Solutions Architect – HIE position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. You’ll collaborate closely with others on the various technologies of our health information exchange platform to implement software solutions.

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IHE IT-Infrastructure Spring 2023

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The IHE IT-Infrastructure committee continues to produce new and improved specifications for HIE interoperability. Cross-Community Patient Discovery (XCPD) Health Data Locator and Revoke Option - Rev. Health IT Vendors should review this supplement and determine if the capabilities within meet their interoperability needs.

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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

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To date, nearly ten entities have announced their intentions to apply to become a QHIN, including prominent software vendors, existing national networks, and regional health information exchanges (HIEs). With any document this complex, there is significant room for interpretation and assumptions. . QHIN or not, everyone has a role.

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Bonus Features – August 20, 2023 – Healthcare orgs only use 57% of their data to drive decision-making, digital health is well represented on the Inc. 5000 list, and more

Healthcare IT Today

That said, 66% trust their health plan more that the government or non-traditional entities such as Amazon or Walmart to their health insurance. Partnerships eHealth Exchange added C3HIE , a Texas-based HIE, to its network of partners under its anticipated QHIN.

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CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway

Healthcare IT Today

How CommonWell Started The Alliance’s inception was announced at HIMSS13 to a shocked audience – a small group of competing health IT companies stood before the crowd and asserted that working together was the way towards better interoperability for the United States. billion documents to date. and US territories including Puerto Rico.

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Bonus Features – February 19, 2023 – 80% of orgs collect SDOH data but struggle to make use of it, 2 in 3 cybersecurity pros say their orgs underestimate threats, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Surveys A survey of 2,600 AHIMA members found that about 80% of healthcare organizations are collecting social determinants of health data. The bad news: Organizations face multiple challenges in collecting, coding, and using SDOH data. Hawai’i HIE chose 4medica to assist with data quality improvement.