By Genevieve Morris – The 21st Century Cures Act, (Cures) a bipartisan, comprehensive law, supports the discovery, development, and delivery of new treatments to maintain America’s global status in biomedical innovation.
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Join Us on Wednesday July 12th at 2pm ET for this 75 minute panel discussion on the challenges and the opportunities interoperability now presents. Moderator David Harlow with lead the discussion with experts Michael Matthews, Mark Frisse, and Dave Bennett. Don’t miss it, register now.
By Jim Tate – My recent post (The Open Secret of Health Information Technology – The Emperor Has No Clothes) lamented the fact that it is often extremely difficult to pry critical Clinical Quality files (QRDA-I and QRDA-III) out of an EHR. Well, it is time to name names, or at least one name.
By Steven Posnack – The Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) standard (version 1.1, C-CDA 1.1) was first adopted in 2012 as part of the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC’s) 2014 Edition final rule.
By Buff Colchagoff – Both the Sequoia Project and DirectTrust recently announced that they are exchanging more health records and connecting more provider sites than ever before – reinforcing how more EHR transactions and more States are being covered as connectivity expands for both.
By Rebecca Freeman PhD – Usability of health IT systems means many things to many people. If we look at the industry-standard International Organization for Standardization definition, usability is…
By Sarianne Gruber – Not too often do you get the chance to hear a Cable guy and IT guy exchange notes on interoperability. At the Inform[ED] Connect Health symposium, the host CableLabs, brought together policy makers, information technology leaders along with cable innovators and wireless technologists.
By Steven Posnack – At this year’s Health Datapalooza 2017, Adam Culbertson (HIMSS Innovator in Residence at ONC) and I gave a five minute “coming attraction” presentation about a patient matching algorithm challenge ONC will launch in June.
By Steven Posnack – In our everyday lives standards enable tasks to be completed more efficiently, reduce configuration costs, and add predictability in markets that can help the lower barriers to entry for innovative products.