While it may be true that the EHR is the main tool for a clinician, the same is not true for patients. Patient data is stored in a wide variety of systems including a…
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By Hannah Nelson
February 14, 2024 – eHealth Exchange is launching an incentive program to drive public health data sharing across its health information exchange (HIE) network.
eHealth Exchange will waive annual fees for three years for…
What You Should Know:
– eHealth Exchange, a health information exchange network, is offering an incentive program to encourage early adoption of public health data sharing.
– The initiative aims to increase the flow of critical…
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The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed recently by the Health Data,…
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We previously shared ONC’s big QHIN announcement which shared the names of five officially designated QHINs as part of TEFCA:
No doubt, the timing of this announcement was planned to coincide with the ONC Annual…
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For those not familiar with the healthcare interoperability space, you may not know that a major portion of health data exchange happens on open source software called OSS Mirth Connect. For many organizations, OSS…
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By Hannah Nelson
October 06, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced a pledge with 13 healthcare systems to share data to improve the Veteran experience regardless of where they seek care.
Through the…
When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. They assume that there must be some easy EHR…
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Civitas Networks for Health is a non-profit consortium that brings together a broad community of organizations interested in health data exchange. Many members are HIEs, but a number of other organizations in health care…
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One of the biggest networks for sharing health data in the country is CommonWell Health Alliance. After some changes in the industry and some acquisitions, CommonWell was in need of a new technical service…
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