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What Healthcare Interoperability Topic Are Not Enough People Talking About?

Healthcare IT Today

We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. What isn’t being talked about enough when it comes to sharing health data? The video below is a compilation of their answers.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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Too Many QHINs Could Hinder Progress Toward Nationwide Health IT Interoperability

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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. About Zach Finn.

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Just Get Connected Already

Healthcare IT Today

Buckle also shares her experience at the Interop Showcase and details of the recent CommonWell FHIR Connectathon where CommonWell members leveraged FHIR to improve interoperability. To describe the current situation in healthcare, Wilder asked us to imagine if a retailer had to call your bank every time you made a credit card purchase.

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Interoperability is a Rural Health Disparity

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The following is a guest article by Jaime Bland, DNP, RN-BC, Chief Executive Officer at CyncHealth, the health data utility for the Midwest, and Kat McDavitt, Principal Advisor and Head of Public Affairs for Innsena and advises organizations including PointClickCare on external affairs.

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Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21

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Convened by HIMSS VP of Government Relations Tom Leary, the panelists – who played a critical role in developing the Riyadh Declaration – reviewed the recommendations, compared them to progress so far and outlined digital health goals for the future. "Federal leadership in the U.S, Dr. He pointed out that the U.S.

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

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We’ll see how effective it is at solving the healthcare interoperability problem. HTI-1 Final Rule Appropriately, we’ve been breaking down what health IT and EHR vendors need to expect when it comes to HTI-1 in our Healthcare Regulatory Talk series.