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How Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients

Healthcare IT Today

As data sharing initiatives gain momentum, including TEFCA nationally and the Data Exchange Framework in California, it’s an important reminder that data sharing advancement is more than a policy or technological discussion. Data sharing decisions impact the care that patients receive every day.

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CyncHealth Optimizes Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

As health data sharing continues to evolve, the mere collection of patient data is no longer sufficient; it’s imperative that the data collected have tangible value for overburdened clinicians increasingly being requested to gather more data.

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Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. As the industry standard, Direct Secure Messaging continues to expand nationally.

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Weekly Roundup – September 30, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

They also touched on the role of health data utilities as the evolution of the state HIE. Laura Marquez at the University of Utah Health outlined how to define success in digital transformation in healthcare and shared her thoughts on how AI will impact transformation. Cynthia Casatelli at e4.health

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Going the Extra Mile to Support Patient Access Is a Win-Win for Patients and HIE Compliance

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Deven McGraw , Co-Founder of Ciitizen® and Lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae Corporation HIEs and HINs Should take Key Actions Now to Prepare for the Enforcement of the Information Blocking Rules On Sept. HIEs are the true stewards of information sharing in their communities.

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Basic Consent - a necessary first step

Healthcare Exchange Standards

There are many standards efforts to develop support for Patient directed Authorization to their health data. All policies are global within the HIE such that an Opt-Out or Opt-In captured at one location covers all HIE member organizations. I will be writing a few articles about these efforts. Table 10.2.3-1 38571.2.1.3.1

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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Takeaways

Health Blawg

At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). Without further ado, here they are: Encryption: Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into an unreadable or coded form that is unreadable without a decryption key.

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