By Jonathan Shannon – The concept of interoperability in healthcare IT has had its fair share of challenges over the years. Compounding challenges around security, organizing the vast amount of data, and making such data available in a timely fashion has hampered the ability to meaningfully exchange such information in healthcare.
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By Mike Berry – The Health Information Technology Advisory Committee plays an important role in ONC activities and objectives. Required by the 21st Century Cures Act, the HITAC has been operational since 2018 and represents a wide range of health IT stakeholders who inform ONC’s policies and programs.
New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guest John Jenkins, MD, an internal medicine physician who runs special projects for Greensborough Area Health Education Centers in digital health and is also a clinical academic resource director at the Greensborough Campus of UNC Chapel Hill, Cone Health.
By Art Gross – Multi-Factor Authentication, or as it has become commonly known, MFA, is the practice of “doubling down” on your login security. You are using Multiple (more than one) Factors (ways or methods) to Authenticate (verify) your identity when you access an account.
By David Burda – It should come as no surprise that two things that I thought went together in healthcare — value-based care and interoperability — don’t really, at least not yet, according to a recently published study in JAMA Health Forum.
New On Demand Healthcare Upside/Down: With guests Ronnie Oestreicher, a principal at CSuite3, and Salem Hawatmeh, a manager at ECG Management Consultants. Coauthors of a recently published whitepaper titled “Operational Framework for Addressing Social Determinants of Health,” Salem and Ronnie want to give health systems a roadmap for understanding SDOH and enacting meaningful interventions.
By John Bender, Scott Bohon, Keith Carlson, & Kyle Cobb – ONC is excited to announce the launch of the Inferno Framework and the (g)(10) Standardized API Test Kit, the new version of the testing method for the § 170.315(g)(10) criterion in the ONC Health IT Certification Program.
By Greg Kefer – Every time we flip the calendars for the new year, there is no shortage of predictions from the various industry influencers and luminaries. The subject matter is frequently tech-focused and we often see the same themes repeated year after year.
By Karin Rhodes MD MS & David Meyers MD – AHRQ’s recent request for information published in the Federal Register sends an exciting signal about the Agency’s growing efforts to re-imagine and improve the way healthcare is delivered. It foreshadows a new era of robust initiatives designed to…