Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, shows us in this…
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By Hannah Nelson
February 28, 2024 – Regenstrief Institute has issued its semiannual release of LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), which includes updates to support health data exchange for various interoperability use cases.
LOINC is a global…
By Hannah Nelson
February 22, 2024 – A California-based health information exchange (HIE) has partnered with EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare to help healthcare providers comply with the state’s new health data exchange framework.
Serving Communities Health Information…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on Monday announced that the two interoperability alliances have crossed the finish line and are now onboarded as Qualified Health Information Networks capable of nationwide…
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By Hannah Nelson
February 12, 2024 – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has designated two additional organizations as Qualified Health Information…
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By Hannah Nelson
January 31, 2024 – Access to outside health data is associated with a reduced risk of code blue events in the emergency department (ED), according to an Epic Research study.
ED clinicians triage patients…
By Hannah Nelson
January 19, 2024 – ONC has released United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Draft Version 5, which includes new data elements aimed at driving health data exchange to reduce health disparities and…
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The Biden-Harris Administration has finalized a new rule that streamlines the prior authorization process and improves health data exchange across the healthcare system. The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that eHealth Exchange, Epic Nexus, Health Gorilla, KONZA and MedAllies can immediately begin exchanging data under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement’s policies…
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By Hannah Nelson
December 12, 2023 – The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has announced that national health data exchange governed by…
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