Many new opportunities for healthcare data exchange are brewing this week under a universal policy for nationwide interoperability.Surescripts approved for TEFCA participation
Surescripts Network Alliance participants, including electronic health records and other technology vendors, health…
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…
There has been tremendous progress in healthcare IT interoperability, but this video is a stark reminder of how much more we need to do to better support patients, caregivers, and their providers. Health information…
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The Sequoia Project’s Privacy and Consent Workgroup said it reviewed existing consent models and frameworks and other factors that may help providers achieve a state of computable consent – where computers exchange patient information…
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New guidelines for health care privacy and consent, extending data sharing to new types of organizations, ensuring the clinical usability of data, and just lots and lots of growth—these are on the agenda of…
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Ascension tells Maine’s attorney general that its May 8 ransomware attack exposed the medical and insurance information of 5.6 million people.
The 140-hospital system’s EHR was down for more than a month.
HIStalk…
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After incorporating industry and public feedback The Sequoia Project released the Data Usability Implementation Guide Version 2 created by its Interoperability Matters Data Usability Workgroup. WHY IT MATTERS
The non-profit nationwide health IT interoperability organization’s DUWG…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Sequoia Project on Monday announced the launch of Common Agreement Version 2.0, an update to the document most recently released this past November.ONC…
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What You Should Know:
– The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), along with The Sequoia Project, Inc., a Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), has released Common Agreement Version 2.0 (CA v2.0).
What…
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The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, created by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT under the 21st Century Cures Act, holds huge promise for interoperability and information exchange. It also has…
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