More Experts Join The Sequoia Project’s Board of Directors
The Sequoia Project, the leading independent advocate for nationwide health data sharing, announced the addition of six new members to its board of directors.
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Organizations Joint Initiatives Supports Open HIE
The Personal Connected Health Alliance and Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise are launching several joint initiatives in 2017 that will focus on improving the ways health IT systems share information.
It’s 2017. Do you know where your interoperability is?
By D’Arcy Gue – With January barely behind us and new occupants in the White House, perhaps it’s a good time to set aside what might change for a moment and focus on what must.
Breaking Down Interoperability Barriers to Unlock the Potential of Technology Innovations
By Diana Nole – When it comes to electronic health record systems (EHRs), most would agree that they have failed to live up to their potential for delivering greater efficiencies, reduced healthcare costs, and improved care quality.
Patient-Mediated Data Exchange Applications for Interoperability
At HIMSS February 20 – 22, Humetrix will champion the role of patients as the first line of defense for controlling rising healthcare costs, improving clinical outcomes and directing their own care in what remains a very fragmented healthcare system.
HIMSS 2017: Waiting On The World To Change (Again)
By Frank Fortner – As I write this, the new administration is a little more than two weeks into its term, and many are rightly wondering what the impact will be across the industry as new leaders in key policymaking positions are taking aim at the ACA.
Using Public-Private Partnerships to Bring Interoperability to Individuals
By Dr. Vindell Washington, Tricia Lee Wilkins, & Aisha Hasan – Over the past 8 years, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology – in collaboration with our federal partners and the private sector – has ushered in an era of widespread health IT adoption and use throughout the country.
America has a Rural Healthcare Crisis – Technology Can Help
By Irv Lichtenwald – As 2017 begins, around 81 percent of Americans live in urban areas, up from 79 percent in 2000. At the same time, urban and suburban areas where vacant land exists (so, not you, San Francisco) have been expanding, redefining what used to be rural.
DirectTrust Offers New Administration Four Recommendations
To ensure continued forward movement in adoption of electronic health information exchange and increased interoperability for care coordination, DirectTrust released a list of four recommendations for the new administration.