By Alison Kemp – Researchers, developers, and clinicians have new tools to help them access high-quality EHR data more effectively. A 2020 ONC LEAP in Health IT awardee, MedStar Health Research Institute, in collaboration with the Georgetown University Medical Center and HealthLab, developed two new data tools…
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By Jocelyn Keegan – Healthcare technology policy, especially rules impacting payers, are coming at us at a fast and furious pace coupled with new enforcement teeth. Executives and leaders in payer organizations face a pivotal decision — Do they simply fulfill regulatory compliance requirements, or do they…
By Don Rucker, MD – Providers sharing data with payers has been anxiety-provoking and is often only as part of rework for appeals of denials of payment or prior authorization. Obviously, providers have been concerned that any data they give to payers would be used to lower their revenues from that payer.
Supporting the adoption of health IT and the promotion of nationwide health information exchange to improve health care, here is what is happening at the ONC, including an updated version of the SRA Tool, a new data brief on hospital use of APIs, and several fall events to attend.
By Paul L Wilder – This year, the hot topic in health interoperability has been TEFCA. Even when we try to think of other things it comes back to that. Here at CommonWell we are proud of 10 years making connections and over 210M lives registered in our system for whom we have made health better through data.
By Wes Barker & Wei Chang – The ONC Cures Act Final Rule (Cures Rule) supports patients’ and providers’ access to electronic health information through Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interfaces (APIs).
By Keith Carlson – With Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) application programming interfaces (APIs) now widely available across the United States, health IT developers and application developers should keep up-to-date on API security work and practice good API security hygiene when implementing applications and tools that leverage FHIR APIs.
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By Jawanna Henry & Wei Chang – Complete and accurate information on a patient’s social determinants of health, including specific needs related to food, housing, and transportation insecurity, can help their clinicians and social services providers take a more holistic approach to an individual’s health and well-being.