The ONC Health IT Certification Program held its quarterly ONC Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable on July 12, 2023. These public meetings are open to all health IT developers, regardless of their participation…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 21, 2023 – ONC has released United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 (USCDI v4), which includes 20 additional data elements and a new data class.
USCDI is a health IT standard…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s just-announced United States Core Data for Interoperability Standard, version 4, includes new data elements that advance the Biden-Harris administration’s priorities of advancing equity, diversity and…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
July 18, 2023 – NextGen Healthcare has arrived at a $31 million settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that it overstated its EHR capabilities to gain government certification, a…
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By Hannah Nelson
June 22, 2023 – The Health Innovation Alliance (HIA) has submitted comments on the ONC proposed rule, Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1), which aims to implement provisions of the 21st Century Cures…
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In Part 1, Dr. Don Rucker, the former National Coordinator for Health IT from 2017-2021, framed the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement’s reliance on brokered protocols and page view document architecture as a costly…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 20, 2023 – Only about 46 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States participate in clinical data registries due to the daunting task of data collection. However, a solution may…
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Dr. Don Rucker, the former National Coordinator for Health IT from 2017-2021, said he sees the current proposed structure of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement and its reliance on brokered protocols and…
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The following is a guest article by Don Rucker, MD, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth
Patients want the same modern computing experience in healthcare that they enjoy the rest of their lives to extend to…
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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