Significant changes to EHNAC accreditation programs to align with OCR Phase II Protocol, HIPAA privacy and security consistency, DirectTrust’s new release of Certificate and HISP Policies.
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Cal INDEX and Inland Empire Health Information Exchange announced a planned merger that will create one of the nation’s most comprehensive nonprofit health information exchanges (HIEs).
The Sequoia Project is seeking healthcare stakeholders, as well as policy and technical experts, for a new cross-organizational patient identity management workgroup.
New research from the UC Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education shows that repealing the ACA would not only take away health insurance from millions of Californians but would also eliminate 209,000 jobs, and cost the state economy $20.3 billion in GDP.
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality announced an agreement to increase health IT connectivity nationwide. The agreement provides additional health data sharing options to a broad range of stakeholders across healthcare, and has three aspects:
The first seven vendors to successfully complete the RSNA Image Share Validation program that rigorously tests the compliance of vendors’ systems to accurately and efficiently exchange medical images.
The eHealth Exchange, an initiative of The Sequoia Project, celebrated Veterans Day powering the launch of an SSA and VA health IT initiative to speed disability determinations for veterans and to receive medical records electronically from all VA facilities.
Provider of cloud-based patient matching solutions, announced that CRISP, a not-for-profit regional HIE serving Maryland and the District of Columbia, will use the Verato platform to automatically process the most difficult patient matching situations.
The American Medical Association (AMA) believes mobile health applications (mHealth apps) and devices that promote safe and effective patient care have the potential to be integrated into everyday practice.