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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

TEFCA aims to create one unified technical framework to exchange data across the country between healthcare providers, health plans, public health agencies, and individuals. . For many of us in health IT communications, TEFCA has been greeted with both excitement and skepticism. There will be a shakeout period.

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Health Data Federalism vs States Data

Healthcare IT Today

This week I’m attending the The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, which I previously described as The Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability. Their discussion was prompted by this paper that was published on “Health Data Federalism.”

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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

As a board-certified physician in clinical informatics working for the second-largest municipal health system in the U.S., When applied correctly, data sharing platforms and tools will improve the quality of care delivered at the individual and population levels. Prior to LANES, Modaressi was a health IT leader at L.A.

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GIS Data Sharing – A Model for Healthcare Data Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. They share their data using open standards and common platforms because they share a common goal – to make the world a better place.

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Connected Health Initiative – Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill

Healthcare IT Today

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) is a non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of all health IT vendors. They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology.

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The Argonaut Project: 10 Year Anniversary in 2024 for HealthTech open interoperability initiative

Lloyd Price

Visit [link] Intro to the Argonaut Project The Argonaut Project is a private sector initiative to advance industry adoption of modern, open interoperability standards. It was launched in 2014 by a group of leading health IT vendors and provider organizations, and is now supported by over 200 organizations.

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Health Data Unbound Virtual Conference

E-CareManagement

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.