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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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6 Organizations Approved as the Initial QHINs Under TEFCA

Healthcare IT Today

eHealth Exchange’s Executive Director already shared that not all QHINs will be created equal. That event happened today and the big news coming out of the event was the six organizations that applied and have been officially designated as QHINS.

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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… Healthcare Needs More Gender Diversity in Leadership. Read more… Featured Health IT Job: Director of Application Development and Integrations at New York eHealth Collaborative, based in Albany or Manhattan, posted to Healthcare IT Central. based EMR, RCM, and practice management assets to N.

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

Healthcare IT Today

QHINs and TEFCA The QHIN announcement really was around which organizations have officially become QHINs as compared with the organizations that were part of the initial QHIN onboarding process.

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Banner Health brings AI driven virtual assistants for better patient experience

Consumer eHealth Engagement

During the fall of 2019, Banner Health evaluated different digital triage tools and selected Buoy Health’s AI assisted chat bot after both an internal clinical leadership evaluation and patient testing for value and desirability. In order to enable these real time updates on labs and images, we integrated the LifeLink bot into our EMR.

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Dartmouth- Hitchcock’s ImagineCare Platform Leverages Wearables, Connected Health & Analytics for Personalized Patient Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

In early 2015, D-H’s leadership team committed to create a truly patient-centric healthcare organization, which delivers high quality proactive personalized care to the patient beyond the hospital walls. sensor- based devices, apps), combines it with EMR data (i.e.