What You Should Know:
– VenoStent, Inc., a medical device company pioneering a new approach to improve dialysis patient outcomes, announced the successful completion of its Series A funding round. The round closed at $20M,…
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What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new final rule today aimed at preventing information blocking in healthcare.
– The final rule establishes disincentives for healthcare providers…
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By Hannah Nelson
March 28, 2024 – ONC has released the draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment.
The agency developed the draft in partnership with more than 25 federal organizations.
The preceding 2020-2025 Federal…
Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s…
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EHRA members and healthcare IT vendors are optimistic about complying with information-sharing regulations as penalties for information blocking begin. Despite ongoing regulatory developments, industry collaboration has enabled readiness for wider electronic health information (EHI)…
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At the outset of 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s analysis of interoperability and methods of exchange among hospitals, which looked at experiences and data from 2017-2021, indicated significant growth…
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The following is a guest article by David Bucciferro, Chair of the EHR Association
In April 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its much-anticipated proposed rule to advance…
By Hannah Nelson
May 18, 2023 – Executives for Health Innovation (EHI), a nonprofit health IT advocacy group, will wind down operations in the coming months.
Founded in 2001, EHI brought together thousands of health and technology…
By Hannah Nelson April 11, 2023 – Over 40 percent of hospitals observed practices they perceived to constitute information blocking in 2021, according to an ONC survey of 2,092 nonfederal acute care hospitals.
Researchers fielded the…
What You Should Know:Patientory Inc., the creator of a blockchain-based, HIPAA-compliant, private medical data ecosystem, announced today that it has launched two solutions–Patientory Consumer Decentralized Application-designed to help patients more efficiently and securely store…
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