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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According to the U.S. CDC health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” Having a complete view of an individual’s clinical data is vital to achieving this.
By Scott Afzal – On April 7, 2022, I had the pleasure of speaking with CommonWell Health Alliance to discuss the future of HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based transactions. It was a privilege to discuss how the Audacious Inquiry partnership with FHIR has enacted tangible change in the real world.
For the first time, CommonWell Health Alliance® hosted a connectathon with 11 of its Service Adopters to test its Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) services as it works to build the next generation of FHIR for clinical data exchange.
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.
During CommonWell TV 2022, they took a page from the U.S. Health & Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and asked their members to speculate on the future of interoperability by asking them to finish this statement: Because of interop, by 2030…
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.
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.
Recorded February 2022 – ICYMI- Watch our virtual round table discussion with industry leaders from The Sequoia Project, CommonWell, EHNAC, and Dedalus on the impact of TEFCA on healthcare providers.