Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. Included updates on TEFCA, HIE networks, job openings and vendor contracts.
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Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. With the release of TEFCA, health information exchange organizations are now awaiting QHIN applications.
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.
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. With the release of TEFCA, health information exchange organizations are now awaiting QHIN applications.
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.
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.
Moving our healthcare system into the digital age, better outcomes, controlling and reducing costs, and patient access to their health data. The ONC has released what they say are the game changers to the future of health data interoperability.
The American Health Information Management Association and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released a companion guide to accompany ONC’s Project US@ (‘Project USA’) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0.
By Buff Colchagoff – Reflecting on the past couple of years and the road ahead for HIEs, I’m reminded of the 1970s Christmas classic claymation story, “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.” You may ask, “what can HIEs learn from a sappy, simplistic kids movie?” Put in the right light, there’s actually plenty of wisdom to be found.