Industry Responds On How to Advance Health Information Exchange
Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange On March 7, 2013 CMS and HHSÂ filed a notice in the Federal Register seeking input on policy and program…
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Using EHRs for Health Information Exchange and Interoperability
EHR Use in Health Information Exchange The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency operating under Health and Human Services (HHS) with a…
ONC Releases Evaluation of the Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program
Brief Explores Differences on How Each Beacon Community Operates The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s Beacon Community Cooperative Agreement Program funds 17 communities across…
ONC Awards Exemplar HIE Governance Program Cooperative Agreement
Program will facilitate workgroup’s efforts to further test, implement, and advance interoperability standards across vendors and states The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) today announced…
Health IT Business News Recap – April 7, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News At HIMSS13 in New Orleans last month one of the biggest stories, if not the biggest, was the announcement…
DirectTrust, EHNAC to work with ONC to advance direct exchange of health information
Exemplar HIE Governance Entities Announced In the fall of 2012 the ONC decided that now is not the time for regulations on health information exchange governance. They…
New Report Forecasts Robust Future for European HIE Market
Vendors exhibiting strong leadership and understanding of interoperability standards to make gains The European market for health information exchange is diverse, with different IT vendors…
Is new EHR vendor-led coalition looking to replace HIEs?
HIT Policy Committee Questions CommonWell Goals By Diana Manos, Government HealthIT At a meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee on April 3, National Coordinator for Health…
Limitations of Medical Device Data Systems as a Feeder of an EHR
EHR Meets MDDS COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu With the exception of imaging and lab results, the EHR…