TEFCA Real Talk | Healthcare IT Today
As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. That’s a hard thing to do…
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Just Get Connected Already
Paul L Wilder, Executive Director of the CommonWell Health Alliance and Liz Buckle, Director of Product, discuss CommonWell's vision, achievements, and plans for the future. Plus, Wilder shares what he was hearing about the…
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Just Get Connected Already | Healthcare IT Today
When my optometrist notices an odd lesion on one of my eyes, we agreed we should let my PCP know. The optometrist printed his report that I would bring to my next PCP exam,…
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Health IT Vendor Releases API for Interoperability With 3 National HIEs
By Hannah Nelson April 25, 2023 – Health IT vendor Particle Health has announced a new offering that provides an interoperability gateway to three national health information exchanges (HIEs) through a single application programming interface (API).
The…
MediFormatica Daily Digest – Tuesday, March 14, 2023 – (45 posts)
In todays fast-paced world, it is easy to miss out on important information, especially if you are trying to keep up with a lot of different sources. That is where the daily digest comes in – it is a tool that compiles all the posts created on the previous day, providing you with a convenient […]
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Common Well Health Alliance Adds EHR Vendor To Health Data Exchange
EHR vendor MEDHOST has joined the CommonWell Health Alliance network to advance health data exchange. CommonWell Health Alliance operates a health information exchange (HIE) network of 34,000 clinical sites and about 191 million registered patients….
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CommonWell Health Alliance Adds EHR Vendor to Health Data Exchange
By Hannah Nelson
March 13, 2023 – EHR vendor MEDHOST has joined the CommonWell Health Alliance network to advance health data exchange.
CommonWell Health Alliance operates a health information exchange (HIE) network of 34,000 clinical…
CommonWell Marks its 10th Anniversary as TEFCA Gets Underway
The following is a guest article by Paul L Wilder, Executive Director, CommonWell Health Alliance.
Nationwide Interoperability: It’s been a concept, a term bandied about for a while in various forms, but for those of…
Federal agencies offer updates on TEFCA, interoperability milestones
On February 13, the government leaders thanked the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and six Qualified Health Information Networks (QHIN) for working to create a nationwide interoperability network under the 21st Century Cures Act. The ‘Network of Networks’
At the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, Secretary Xavier Becerra presented certificates of recognition to the CommonWell Health Alliance, eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Services, Health Gorilla, Kno2 and KONZA for moving into the pre-production testing process of the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement.
With the framework, ONC and the Sequoia Project, TEFCA’s recognized coordinating entity, seek to establish…
Epic, eHealth Exchange and CommonWell among HHS-approved QHIN candidates
A half-dozen organizations on Monday were approved by the Department of Health and Human Services as the inaugural batch of candidates to participate as qualified health information networks as part of ONC’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.During a Feb. 13 event at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, six healthcare organizations were approved to implement TEFCA as prospective QHINs: CommonWell Health Alliance, eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Services, Health Gorilla, Kno2, and KONZA National Network.
In a blog post, National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi recognized those organizations, “for their willingness to voluntarily step up and meet the…
