Epic Achieves Historic Interoperability Breakthrough
Epic Systems reached a groundbreaking interoperability milestone this Monday, announcing that over 1,000 hospitals and thousands of clinics are now actively exchanging health data through its TEFCA Qualified Health Information…
Epic Systems announced on Monday it has reached what it’s calling milestone in interoperability: a significant and growing number of hospitals and clinics exchanging health data across its TEFCA Qualified Health Information Network. WHY IT…
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The Current State of Healthcare Data Privacy
The Sequoia Project’s Privacy and Consent Workgroup has conducted an extensive review of existing consent models and frameworks. Their goal: achieving “computable consent” – an automated system where…
Jernigan was deputy director for public health science and surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the time, and he discussed lessons from the CDC’s 2019 data modernization initiative, including ongoing cloud…
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ASTP publishes a slimmed-down version of the TEFCA HTI-2 final rule. Some parts that were unrelated to TEFCA, such as those related to public health data exchange and payer API standards, were moved…
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The pressures for data exchange and interoperability have converged on the concept of a health data utility. At the DirectTrust conference, Angie Bass, Chief Strategy Officer at Velatura, describes this as a “unifying force”…
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Meet Sarah, a traveler visiting her daughter in Texas, far from her primary doctor in Connecticut. In need of medical care, Sarah worries about how her health records can be accessed from miles away….
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At the recent DirectTrust conference, Ken Romo, Global Director at ETHERFAX, shares with us that they are not just a fax company: He describes them as a cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company…
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healthKERI provides secure data exchange by allowing endpoints to verify themselves and maintain their own secret keys, removing the overhead of trusted third parties and their certification processes from data exchange. CEO and Founder…
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Marilee Benson is president of Zen Healthcare IT, a technology vendor that aims to make interoperability simpler with a flexible health data exchange platform and on-demand data exchange experts. Zen’s Gemini Integration Platform covers…
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