What’s Happening at the ASTP/ONC
Support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide, standards-based health information exchange to improve health care. here is what is happening at the ASTP.
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Increase in Exchange of Vaccination Data in Nebraska, Powered by the STAR HIE Program
By LaVerne Perlie & Jaime Bland – ASTP talked with Jaime Bland CEO, at CyncHealth to learn how the STAR HIE Program supported the state’s public health agency with the exchange of health information during the COVID-19 pandemic.
$75 Million Investment in Rural Health Care
HRSA announced nearly $75 million to support health care services in rural America. Funding will launch new opioid treatment and recovery services in rural communities, strengthen maternal health care in the South, and help rural hospitals stay open.
Setting Our Sights Toward a Healthier, More Innovative, Data-Driven Future
From the Health IT Buzz Blog – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has released the final 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan.
4 Reasons Why the Adoption of FHIR Brings Immense Value to Medical Record Requesters
By Anthony Murray – The HL7® FHIR® standard is the accepted standard for exchanging healthcare information, regardless of how or where the information is stored. By enabling secure access to both clinical and administrative data, FHIR ensures that healthcare providers can access the information they need to deliver optimal patient care.
Getting Real about Information Blocking and APIs
By Micky Tripathi – Our country has made tremendous strides and invested billions of private and public dollars in establishing the digital future of the health care system. We are thus highly concerned about ongoing and recent reports that we have received about potential violations of…
The Global Digital Health Partnership: Engaging Individuals for Worldwide Wellness
By Elise Sweeney Anthony & Aisha Hasan – In the dynamic landscape of global health, one principle stands out as a common thread across countries: the importance of individual engagement. Increasingly recognized for its transformative impact on individual health outcomes, individual engagement is a concept that…
CMS is Accepting PY 2023 MIPS EUC Reweighting Requests for Change Healthcare Cyberattack
Any clinician, group, subgroup, virtual group, or APM Entity that wasn’t able to submit their MIPS data solely because of the Change Healthcare cyberattack can request reweighting now through October 11, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET.
Introducing the 2024 Draft Federal FHIR® Action Plan
By Avinash Shanbhag & Adam Wong – The draft action plan serves as a single resource for federal agencies and anyone else in the health IT community looking for the FHIR-based capabilities being used today by the federal government. Feedback on the action plan is being accepted through Nov. 25.