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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 the health IT community, 2022 has been a big year. . Currently, perhaps 99% of health data exchange is initiated to support treatment. Many exchanges store patient health data in long-term or permanent repositories.

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HIE Future is bright - single connection to hub

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The next item on the HIE Future is Bright list is movement from "Multiple Point-to-Point Connections" to "Single Connection to Hub". In the case of most HIE traffic today it is for the PurposeOfUse of "Treatment". This change is purely administrative, but is still significant. I will guess, but will keep my guesses here limited.

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Featured Health IT Job: Data Scientist

Healthcare IT Today

This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is in New York. You will lead and support our data science and statistical applications across multiple business needs such as health information exchange value analyses, performance reporting, financial modeling, technology monitoring and optimization.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

All targets related to the three health-MDGs were met, with a notable success in reduction of child mortality and considerable improvements in maternal health. "Rwanda’s "Rwanda’s eHealth Strategic Plan for 2016–2020 is the key driver to economic growth and to improving the lives of people.

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Bonus Features – February 18, 2024 – 89% of patients want a single platform for managing their health, 70% of organizations interested in AI plan to adopt solutions from their EHR vendors, plus 27 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

News HHS designated two more QHINs : CommonWell Health Alliance and Kno2. eHealth Exchange is launching an incentive program that will waive annual fees for three years to the first five HIEs or state/local public health agencies that agree to exchange public health data.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

LLC, not- for-profit) including but not limited to local departments of health or social services, behavioral health IPAs and other structures formed by regional participants. Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Elsewhere? We’ll have to see. SDHN, we solve this.