By Steven Posnack MS, MHS – On January 10, ONC submitted the recently published 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory, a catalog of standards and implementation specifications that are or could be used to advance the seamless and secure flow of electronic health information.
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By Neil Smiley – Bundled payments and predictive analytics dominated the health information technology landscape for much of 2016. 2017 is shaping up to become the year that providers and payers will effectively leverage these new capabilities.
By Micky Tripathi, CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative explains everything you need to know on the recently announced interoperability agreement between CommonWell and The Sequoia Project (Carequality).
The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the 2017 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA).
By D’Arcy Gue – Healthcare industry market analysts, technology gurus and IT reporters sometimes like to envision a powerfully capable future in which software architectures are open, small application developers are thriving, and healthcare IT solutions.
By Kevin R. Ward MD – We talk a lot about how we can use data to improve patient care. We discuss the importance of interoperability, the need for more available data, and how data can help spot an issue with a patient they otherwise may not have caught.
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality announced an agreement to increase health IT connectivity nationwide. The agreement provides additional health data sharing options to a broad range of stakeholders across healthcare, and has three aspects:
By Abhinav Shashank – Healthcare industry is lagging the most when it comes to advancements. There have been innovations, but equal implementation has been lacking. The cost of care has risen to over $10,000 per person,
By Steven Posnack & Thomas Sparkman – Last year, HL7 released an implementation guide that provides a standardized way to exchange the catalogs of (thousands) laboratory tests and services that a clinical laboratory can perform.