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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. . As an outgrowth of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), eHealth Exchange was developed from the outset to be platform agnostic.

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Congress should include telehealth in year-end funding, say ATA, HIMSS

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. That flexibility, in turn, shed light on how arbitrary some of those restrictions were.

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Legislators and healthcare orgs rally in favor of bipartisan telehealth bill

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We have seen the positive impact of telehealth across the nation," said Jen Covich Bordenick, CEO at eHealth Initiative. Department of Health and Human Services, said Bordenick, have allowed individuals suffering from COVID symptoms to get virtual treatment. The temporary waivers issued by the U.S.

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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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Weekly Roundup – July 29, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Read more… Public Health Transparency Improves Outcomes in San Bernardino County. Earlier this month, we highlighted Colin Hung’s conversation with San Bernardino County Department of Public Health about embracing GIS technology.

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients

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CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Although we will refine specific responsibilities, we anticipate the CHIO role will help drive forward the many health IT initiatives we have begun this year, including the Medicare Blue Button 2.0 Mohanraj.Balas….

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Building the Future through CMS eHealth

CMS.gov

We are living in a time of rapid and unprecedented change for health IT. CMS Launches eHealth. If you are at the HIMSS conference in New Orleans today, I hope you will stop by our CMS Town Hall (Session 81, 1:00-2:00 pm, New Orleans Theater C) to hear more about our eHealth initiatives.

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