Tech departments are moving quickly to meet the unique, urgent needs of the moment. Meanwhile, their elected leaders are grappling with gigantic revenue losses. So what does it all mean for IT or for Interoptumability?
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Messaging is important and certain words and language have negative meanings for people and lead to stigmatizing attitudes toward certain populations of people. Today the NIC hosted a webinar that was around making a case for meaningful systems chang
Read more…The coronavirus pandemic is shedding light on how important health exchange data and interoperability is. In Florida, there is one health information exchange that created a portal where all health systems and patients can have access to health recor
Read more…This is the time for adaptive leadership to come forward and figure out how they can help communities adapt to the future that’s coming, particularly since most people are resistant to change. People are struggling right now and the coronavirus pande
Read more…Data can be used to do a lot of things. The amount of data around health is enormous and it continues to grow. The data that is available can help identify several things, to include cost-effective programs and policies around health. If we have this
Read more…Access to affordable housing continues to decline as rent and the cost of homes continues to increase, and the wage gap hits record highs. There is this belief across the United States that if you “pull yourself up by bootstraps” and work hard you wi
Read more…State CDO Network Summit Wraps Up
The newly launched State Chief Data Officers Network met for the first time this week in Washington, D.C.
Topics discussed included CDO being enablers for using data and how states can work collectively to advance work
Read more…Speaking during a policy update during the CHIME Fall CIO Forum, Leslie Krigstein, vice president of congressional affai
Read more…Please add your recommendations about what topics would be of most interest to discuss in the LGT group. Your thoughts and recommendations will help us align interests and priorities.
Read more…The FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST), convened by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), brings together a highly representative group of motivated healthcare industry stakeholders and health information technology experts. The gro
Read more…Hi folks - I've really appreciated listening in on the calls over the past few weeks. Thank you all for your important work.
I have concerns about how to address the potential harms that can come from this kind of interoperability.
Consider this articl
Read more…I have been at the ONC Interoperability Forum in DC for a few days and I had an opportunity to discuss NIEM for Health with a very well respected former government official whose perspectve I respect very much. He has a long history with standards de
Read more…https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2019/08/22/hhs-42-cfr-part-2-proposed-rule-fact-sheet.html
"The 42 CFR part 2 regulations serve to protect patient records created by federally funded programs for the treatment of substance use disorder (SUD). SAMHSA is
Read more…Six beta organizations to provide early feedback prior to launch of accreditation program l
Read more…About 50 LGT members participated during the course of the 90-minute meeting. There was a high level of interest and engagement throughout, as there has been on previous calls.
The meeting began with self-introductions, then a review of previous disc
Read more…I would like to start a discussion about open source software. I think this is critical to the success of projects such as ours. We, for instance, have created a number of open source products for use in healthcare, especially at the intersection of
Read more…Folks in healthcare are focused on the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) version 2 draft document for discussion. Public comments are open until June 17.
Read more…I would like to introduce the collaborative that I work with, the MITA Technical Architecture Committee (TAC). MITA TAC’s members have been working together for the last 15 years, making recommendations for how to adopt emerging technology and stan
Read more…We all know that better information – shared among the multiple sectors that possess it – leads to improved patient-centered care. The tough part, of course, is pulling all the necessary data together in ways that are secure and respect the privacy/c
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