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The Sequoia Project and AHIMA, today announced the launch of a new initiative called Data Usability Taking Root to make health data more useful. 11 organizations have already committed to participating in…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 11, 2023 – Months after Charleston Area Medical Center and Mon Health merged to create Vandalia Health, the health system signed a 10-year agreement to deploy Oracle Health’s EHR to drive health data interoperability.
Officials…
By Sara Heath
July 10, 2023 – It could be useful for providers treating patients with dementia to encourage their care partners to create their own patient portal proxy accounts, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 05, 2023 – Standards-development organization Health Level Seven International (HL7) and The World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a Project Collaboration Agreement to support the global adoption of open interoperability standards.
Adopting interoperability…
By Hannah Nelson
June 29, 2023 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has published a Health Level Seven International (HL7) Fast…
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The City of Tempe, Arizona, is using modern technology and an advanced infrastructure planning approach to enable people to make better health choices. This means ensuring everyone has access to fresh food, convenient transportation,…
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Google’s search engine and YouTube channel have brought it global name recognition. Now the tech giant wants to become the responsible face of health knowledge through Google Health The company’s chief health officer Karen de…
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Amazon postpones the launch of its Amazon Clinic expansion by three weeks after lawmakers raise concerns about the company’s privacy practices, specifically its method of collecting and sharing customer health data.
Launched last…
More governments, territories and healthcare organizations are establishing health information exchanges to enable faster and more seamless sharing of health data among doctors’ offices, hospitals, federally qualified health centers, state agencies, public health clinics,…
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Quality health data is essential to quality healthcare. Providers can’t effectively treat patients unless they have timely access to thorough and accurate data about their medical condition and history.
Likewise, quality data is critical to…
