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• In an ideal world, technology would maximize individual benefits while also protecting privacy. But in practice, the pivot to digital-first healthcare has sometimes left personal information vulnerable to attack – as evidenced by

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• Within ONC’s focus of medical and public health data-sharing and interoperability has been the work to connect systems to address COVID-19. ONC has collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to drive a data-

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• Across most government agencies, there is a rising emphasis on modernizing shared services and the cloud to drive down costs and be more effective. Many organizations are building integrated data platforms to bring in data and be

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• The ability to easily send and receive data can be critical to advancing the fight against COVID-19. The second strategic action of the HIMSS COVID-19 Global Policy Call to Action Report highlights this issue by addressing the ne

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• Promote interoperability and patient access to health information, CAQH announced a partnership with the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) that incentivizes FHIR app developers in the CAQH Endpoint Di

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• On May 6, 2021, the comment period for the proposed modification to regulations implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule and Health Information Technology for Economic an

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• The Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) announced that three new state HIE members have joined the organization to boost care coordination, interoperability, and industry collaboration in an effort to impr

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• Washington and Michigan have selected a secure application programming interface (API) to meet the CMS interoperability rule that Medicaid members have access to personal health data. To fulfill these requirements, Washington and

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• During the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an increasing international adoption of digital health solutions, including telehealth and cloud computing creating concerns about data privacy and cybersecurity. The third strategi

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• If interoperability is one half of the healthcare innovation story, security and privacy are the other, more challenging half. Interoperability in healthcare often involves sharing individual patient data, which often falls under

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• For organizations seeking to improve their population health management capabilities, big data is a critical part of the journey. Gathering information from different sources – such as claims, medical records, and lab systems – c

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• Only 24 percent of healthcare companies currently utilize application programming interfaces (APIs) at scale, according to data from the Engine Group commissioned by Change Healthcare. Despite low utilization, the research reveal

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• Kathy Talkington, director of Health Programs at Pew, said USCDI Version 2 is missing valuable information to help combat public health crises, such as COVID-19. “When finalizing the proposed version, ONC should ensure the USCDI

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• InterSystems this week announced that it would join the Vulcan FHIR Accelerator Program, which was recently convened by Health Level Seven International to enable greater interoperability for clinical researchers.
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• InterOp.Community – a new venture of the Interoperability Institute, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise USA, Interopion and Red Hat – will offer a developer sandbox to spur use of open platforms for health data exchange. They'

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• The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's top goals include prioritizing interoperability, aligning with federal partners, centering health equity and continuing to work toward addressing the COVID-19 crisis, said ON

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• Robert LaMagna-Reiter, vice president and chief information security officer at First National Technology Solutions, better known as FNTS, says healthcare organizations increasingly are using industry-specific clouds to work on c

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• To be most clinically effective, and as routinely occurs in private care, referral providers (CCN providers in the context of the VA) must have access to the medical history and essential records of the veterans in their care. Un

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• Not only will providers have to abide by the ONC final rule, but the CMS interoperability rule addresses admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) notifications. Providers need to fulfill a CMS condition of participation that will

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• A prominent example of this kind of discrimination is an algorithm used to refer chronically ill patients to programs that care for high-risk patients. A study in 2019 found that the algorithm favored whites over sicker African A