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Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative dissolves, saying 'work completed'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives. ON THE RECORD.

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Big ONC News: QHINs, TEFCA, and HTI-1

Healthcare IT Today

We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. HTI-1 Final Rule Appropriately, we’ve been breaking down what health IT and EHR vendors need to expect when it comes to HTI-1 in our Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.

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6 Organizations Approved as the Initial QHINs Under TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

Most EHR vendors I’ve talked to have planned to be part of the network through someone like CommonWell (see MEDITECH’s QHIN and TEFCA approach here ), but I’ll be watching to see if that changes as QHINs develop. eHealth Exchange’s Executive Director already shared that not all QHINs will be created equal.

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Not All QHINs Will Be Created Equal

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, Executive Director at eHealth Exchange. For federal agencies and state and regional exchanges, this is an excellent time to demonstrate leadership in interoperability by joining a network that will likely provide a ready on-ramp to TEFCA.

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Weekly Roundup – December 3, 2022

Healthcare IT Today

Colin Hung spoke to Eric Dick and Darren Moser at IEHP about advancing their work with GIS and getting the leadership team to buy in. At the CHIME Fall Forum, John sat down with Hannah Ellerbee at Divurgent about what leadership should look out for, whether it’s inadequate staff training or poorly performing technology tools.

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Bonus Features – January 29, 2023 – ONC says more than 70% of hospitals can use external data at the point of care, the 3 largest health info networks have indexed 90% of patients, and more

Healthcare IT Today

The report also found that queries to the CommonWell Health Alliance, Carequality, and eHealth Exchange took one minute to complete and returned 134 files per patients. The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability is partnering with eHealth Exchange in anticipation of the exchange being named a Qualified Health Information Network.

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients

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It’s 2018—most doctors are using electronic health records (EHRs) and most patients have access to the Internet and a smartphone, providing many ways to view healthcare data securely. The CHIO role will enhance my leadership team, working across CMS, with federal partners including the U.S. CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients.