Weekly Roundup – January 10, 2021
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives…
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Tag: data sharing
Working Groups at The Sequoia Project Promote Data Exchange, Compliance, and Privacy
Getting patient data to the proper person—including doctors and the patients themselves—is a many-layered task involving standards, privacy protections, consent, and usability. In our recent interview, Mariann Yeager, CEO at a major nonprofit in…
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EHR Interoperability 2025: KLAS Reports Usability Gaps Hinder Data Sharing Succes
What You Should Know:
– EHR interoperability holds immense potential to improve patient care decisions, enable innovation, and reduce administrative churn. However, a new report from KLAS Healthcare IT Insights reveals that despite advancements in…
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Avandra Health Acquires DatCard and Sorna to Build the Leading Medical Imaging Data Platform
Avandra
What You Should Know:
– Avandra Health, the world’s largest federated network for medical imaging and clinical data, today announced the acquisition of DatCard Systems and Sorna Corporation. This strategic move is set to establish…
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A user-driven consent platform for health data sharing in digital health applications
Wearable and health app data hold significant potential for healthcare and research, yet fragmented consent mechanisms create challenges for ethical, transparent, and user-controlled data sharing. We describe a centralised consent management system with a…
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Epic EHR Advancements Transform Healthcare Systems
Epic’s 2025 Enhancement Suite Overview
Epic Systems announced plans in August to introduce an extensive collection of improvements throughout 2025, marking one of the most substantial platform updates in recent years. Healthcare organizations utilizing Epic’s…
Texas “Golden Spike”: HIEs Unite to Form Largest Interoperability Network in Texas with Bidirectional Data Sharing
What You Should Know:
– In a development being called a “Golden Spike” moment, two of Texas’ largest Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)—C3HIE and the Texas Health Services Authority (THSA)—have signed a historic agreement for the…
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Bryan Health Expands Data Sharing Via TEFCA
Bryan Health’s TEFCA Integration
Bryan Health has successfully implemented a groundbreaking connectivity solution by leveraging its Epic electronic health record (EHR) system to participate in the federal Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). The…
CHIME25: Data Governance and Interoperability Are Critical to AI Preparedness
How Does AI Relate to Healthcare Interoperability?
In a panel on the future of interoperable intelligence, Sarang Deshpande, vice president and chief data and analytics officer at Franciscan Health, said that for the past 10…
Contradictions in Healthcare – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 179
For the 179th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast, we are talking about contradictions in healthcare! We kick this episode off by first examining how we are striving for more personalized care while…
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