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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. Massachusetts Health Data Consortium , which will design, test and complete a documented prototype for Electronic Prior Authorization integrated with the EHR.

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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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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… Healthcare Needs More Gender Diversity in Leadership. From leadership roles to clinical trial participants, women are underrepresented across the board in the industry – and this is bad for both patient and corporate outcomes , according to Dr. Read more… How Help Desk Updates Can Boost Clinician Productivity.

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

Healthcare IT Today

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. This is a big step forward for QHINs who can now start sharing health data. We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem.

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Patient Matching Errors Continue To Be Common

Healthcare IT Today

The survey, which was conducted by the eHealth Initiative and commissioned by NextGate, included 118 respondents, roughly two-thirds of which were providers. Patient matching problems are persistent across healthcare organizations and continue to pose patient safety risks, according to a new survey addressing these issues.

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