The Sequoia Project, a non-profit and trusted advocate for nationwide health information exchange, celebrated its 10-year anniversary recently. Founded April 23, 2012, it has spent the last decade incubating bold new ideas and initiatives to tackle the pressing challenges facing the health IT community on a national level.
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EHNAC and HITRUST announced a partnership to strengthen the framework of the Trusted Network Accreditation Program. TNAP seeks to promote interoperability by assuring the security and privacy of trusted networks and the use of enabling technologies in the healthcare ecosystem.
While there are regional and national interoperability hubs like CommonWell working at scale across the country, the ONC’s recent TEFCA aims at pushing the health IT industry to certify these hubs as highly scalable, highly secure utility grade systems and connect them via standardized exchange practices and patient search capabilities.
The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) announced it has launched a new task force, aimed at developing recommendations for how to successfully collect and electronically report on ACOs’ quality of care through disparate health information technology systems.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is taking steps to continue to protect nursing home residents’ health and safety by announcing guidance that restores certain minimum standards for compliance with CMS requirements.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights released a Request for Information seeking input from the public on two requirements of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act), as amended in 2021.
The eHealth Exchange, one of the nation’s largest health information networks connecting federal agencies and providers, launched the eHealth Exchange Innovation Grant program. The program seeks to award as much as $550,000 in grants and other incentives to organizations pursuing…
Civitas Networks for Health and DirectTrust announced they are combining their respective annual conference events into “The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit” with the theme “Better Together: Health Data Collaboratives and Information Exchange to Advance Health Equity”.
The Sequoia Project’s Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup published Pandemic Response Insights and Recommendations, a free whitepaper for local, state, and federal emergency preparedness and public health officials and their partners.