The following is a guest article by Deven McGraw, Co-Founder of Ciitizen® and Lead for Data Stewardship and Data Sharing at Invitae Corporation
HIEs and HINs Should take Key Actions Now to Prepare for the…
London Northwest University Hospital is preparing for the go-live of its new Oracle Cerner electronic patient record (EPR) system on Friday August 18, the trust said in a statement posted on its website.The launch…
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By Hannah Nelson
August 15, 2023 – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced two awards totaling $2 million under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology (LEAP…
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Health information exchange (HIE) is seen as a key component of effective care but remains poorly evidenced at a health system level. In the UK National Health Service (NHS), the ability to share primary…
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Epic is leading healthcare data exchange progress with Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, and Stanford Health, fostering nationwide information sharing. Matt Doyle, Epic’s interoperability software development lead, discusses their Quality Health Information Network (QHIN) efforts. Over…
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Pat Hurley, VP and General Manager, Americas at Acronis
The protected health information (PHI) entrusted to healthcare providers is more valuable than credit card numbers to cyber criminals. Why? Because medical records contain a cache…
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Some two dozen leading health systems – Cedar-Sinai, Johns Hopkins, Kaiser Permanente, NYU Langone and others – have pledged to take part in the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, joining the nationwide interoperability…
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By Hannah Nelson
August 10, 2023 – Aetna, a CVS Health company, has awarded Georgia’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE) $200,000 for a pilot project to drive social determinants of health (SDOH) interoperability.
The Georgia Health Information…
New bipartisan legislation on Capitol Hill aims improve the coordination of mental and physical healthcare with a funding and guidance to spur wider adoption of electronic health records for behavioral health providers.WHY IT MATTERS
The…
By Hannah Nelson
August 08, 2023 – Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Calif.), Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), and Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) have introduced an act to support behavioral health providers’ efforts to…
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