The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT this week announced $2 million in new award funding for the most recent innovation projects under its Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology…
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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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AI Start-up Pioneering Generative AI for Healthcare Receives $13M in Early Funding, Adds Industry Luminaries as Advisors, and Kicks off Use Cases for Health Insurance Plans and Provider Systems
GenHealth.ai, a game-changing generative AI startup,…
HHS’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently added some teeth to the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. The office finalized penalties to enforce these rules, including fines…
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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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In Part 1, Dr. Don Rucker, the former National Coordinator for Health IT from 2017-2021, framed the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement’s reliance on brokered protocols and page view document architecture as a costly…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 20, 2023 – Only about 46 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States participate in clinical data registries due to the daunting task of data collection. However, a solution may…
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Dr. Don Rucker, the former National Coordinator for Health IT from 2017-2021, said he sees the current proposed structure of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement and its reliance on brokered protocols and…
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Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from.
eClinicalWorks has tackled…
