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The Launch: athenahealth and b.well Connected Health have unveiled a new point-of-care workflow that allows patients to share health info via QR code, eliminating paper forms and faxes.The Goal: The project directly supports the CMS "Kill the Clipboard" initiative, a federal push to replace manual intake with patient-directed digital tools.The Tech: Patients aggregate their records (including wearable data) in the b.well app, generate a QR code, and practice staff scan it
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The Proprietary Trap: Why ‘Open Data’ is the Key to Scaling Your Dental Practice in 2026
Care coordination in the dental industry barely exists.
While the medical industry has made progress toward interoperability with several recent initiatives, dentistry continues to lag behind its healthcare counterparts in supporting the principles of “open data,” which allow information to be freely accessed, used, and shared across platforms without restrictive barriers.
Improved data-sharing offers significant benefits for both patients and providers.
Dental
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EHR Interoperability 2025: KLAS Reports Usability Gaps Hinder Data Sharing Succes
What You Should Know:
- EHR interoperability holds immense potential to improve patient care decisions, enable innovation, and reduce administrative churn. However, a new report from KLAS Healthcare IT Insights reveals that despite advancements in data-sharing technology, interoperability is still far from achieving its desired state.
- The report emphasizes that true interoperability is a team effort requiring healthcare organizations, payer organizations, and vendors to work
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Texas “Golden Spike”: HIEs Unite to Form Largest Interoperability Network in Texas with Bidirectional Data Sharing
What You Should Know:
- In a development being called a "Golden Spike" moment, two of Texas’ largest Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)—C3HIE and the Texas Health Services Authority (THSA)—have signed a historic agreement for the bidirectional sharing of encounter event messages for treatment purposes.
- The collaborative approach represents a fundamental shift from proprietary data silos to an open, patient-centered ecosystem where interoperability serves the greater good of Texas
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Unstructured Data Crisis: How AI Solves Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Challenge
One of the most daunting quandaries in healthcare is managing the abundance of data that are generated every day. The challenge isn’t just the vast volume of information, but the fact that most data are unstructured. Unstructured data require a considerable amount of manual intervention to read the contents and determine where the information needs to be integrated for the most efficient action.
These data challenges multiply as organizations struggle to compile information across various
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Redox and Kno2 Form Strategic Alliance to Solve Healthcare’s Interoperability and Data Usability Challenge
What You Should Know:
- Redox, a healthcare interoperability company, and Kno2, a company specializing in healthcare communication announced a strategic alliance aimed at solving the dual challenge of moving clinical data at scale and making that data instantly usable across the healthcare ecosystem.
- The combined network forms the largest and most comprehensive healthcare network of provider systems, EHRs, and HIT vendors in the United States. Together, Redox and Kno2 transact over 40
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CARIN Alliance Launches Nation’s First Unified Digital Identity Credential Policy
What You Should Know:
- The CARIN Alliance, in partnership with DirectTrust® and Kantara Initiative™, has announced the publication of the nation’s first unified digital identity credential trust framework policy.
- The landmark policy establishes a foundation for digital identity credentials to be consistently recognized and exchanged across systems and organizations.
Harmonizing Major Trust Frameworks
The CARIN Digital Identity Credential Policy integrates and harmonizes
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Epic Outlines Roadmap for Next-Generation Data Sharing at Open@Epic
What You Should Know:
- Nearly 1,000 experts gathered at the developer-focused Open@Epic conference to discuss the future of healthcare data sharing.
- During the event, Epic outlined its plans for expanding interoperability, simplifying patient-driven data connections, and enhancing support for app developers. In the past year alone, over 745 billion data exchanges took place using Epic’s publicly available APIs.
Easier Patient-Driven Data Connections
Epic's new
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MEDITECH Adds New Workflow Enhancements to Interoperability Network
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH has announced new workflow advancements to its Traverse Exchange interoperability solution, which are already live at 112 health systems.
- These enhancements feature a consolidated patient summary that improves clinician efficiency by providing a streamlined view of patient data from multiple sources within the native EHR workflow. The system intelligently filters out redundant information, organizing key data in a searchable format to enable
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Healthcare’s Unstructured Data Problem: The Case for Modernization
Like most other sectors operating in the digital economy, healthcare has become hugely reliant on unstructured data. It’s widely acknowledged that this data type, which doesn’t follow a predefined format and resides outside traditional databases, now comprises 80-90% of all organizational data.
In healthcare settings, this can encompass a wide range of items, including medical imaging, scans, emails, claims documents, and device outputs, among many other possibilities. This information is
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