What You Should Know:
- Today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has officially launched a new platform dedicated to organizing and building USCDI+ datasets.
- This user-friendly platform, located at https://uscdiplus.healthit.gov, provides a central location for accessing and exploring all USCDI+ datasets across various domains.
Enhanced User Experience and Powerful Tools
The new platform boasts several improvements over previous data
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Providence Pioneers Data Sharing for Value-Based Care with HL7® Da Vinci Clinical Data Exchange
What You Should Know:
- Providence has become the first health system in the United States to develop a data-as-a-service (DaaS) product driven by HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR).
- This product facilitates the exchange of clinical data between providers and payers, aiming to standardize clinical data across the system.
Barriers to Data Exchange
Traditionally, one of the most significant barriers to seamless clinical data exchange has been the lack of
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Philips Launches New Interoperability Capabilities for Comprehensive Patient View
What You Should Know:
- Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, has announced the interoperability of Philips Capsule Medical Device Information Platform (MDIP) with Philips Patient Information Center iX (PIC iX), providing hospitals with a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive patient overview.
- Interoperability between MDIP and PIC iX gives clinicians a new clinical perspective that enables the capture of streaming data flowing freely from a variety of medical device
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Holon Solutions, HealtHIE Nevada Partner to Improve Information Sharing in Nevada
What You Should Know:
Holon Solutions, the leading human-centric healthcare technology company, and HealtHIE Nevada, the nonprofit health information exchange (HIE) that provides electronic connection among Nevada physicians, hospitals, labs and other health care organizations, today announced a collaboration to radically improve open information sharing across the healthcare sector. This initiative will enable care teams to improve care coordination and quality, while providing
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Health Gorilla Launches Patient Access Solution Enabling Access to Health Data from Health Information Networks
What You Should Know:
Health Gorilla, a privacy-focused health information network and interoperability solution provider, has announced the launch of its Patient Access solution, which allows healthcare organizations to access comprehensive health data by enabling consumers to submit queries to national health information networks under the Individual Access Services (IAS) purpose of use.Accessing comprehensive data seamlessly from national exchanges has traditionally been limited to
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ONC Awards The Sequoia Project 5-Year TEFCA RCE Contract
What You Should Know:
- The Sequoia Project, an advocate for health information exchange and health IT interoperability, was chosen by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to continue as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to support the implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA).
- The non-profit was awarded a five-year contract to continue the public-private engagement in support of a nationwide
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Azalea Health, Particle Health Integrate to Enhance Interoperability for Rural Provider Care Delivery
What You Should Know:
- Azalea Health forms a strategic partnership with Particle Health to foster a seamless interoperability of vital healthcare data, streamline communication, and elevate the standard of patient care for the rural health market.
- By integrating Azalea's state-of-the-art ambulatory and inpatient solutions with Particle's robust data exchange infrastructure, healthcare providers, even those in rural locations, will gain access to a unified platform capable of
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Sequoia Project, AHIMA Launches Data Usability Initiative
What You Should Know:
The Sequoia Project and AHIMA, today announced the launch of a new initiative called Data Usability Taking Root to make health data more useful. 11 organizations have already committed to participating in the group and implementing and improving the best practices for data usability created over three years by 260+ Sequoia members. The organizations that have committed to implementing data usability include Azuba, Civitas Networks for Health, Epic, Foothold
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How EHR Interoperability Will Impact Health Care IT in 2023 and Beyond
The U.S. healthcare system has been in desperate need of modernization for decades. Thankfully, essential change is finally happening.
IT workers at healthcare organizations are now creating more efficient and effective electronic health records (EHRs), a process that requires integrating EHRs with new patient-access technologies. It also means that other healthcare workers – medical assistants, teletriage nurses, call center agents, etc. – need to change the way they work in
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Why Interoperability is Key to Successful Digital Pharma Solutions
We are at an interesting crossroads when it comes to pharma and digital health. Several years after the first iteration of digital patient solutions was initially launched, many pharma companies are taking a step back to strategically evaluate how they have performed in practice and the impact they have had on both patient and business outcomes.
Unfortunately, many platforms that pharma companies have either integrated within existing platforms or built have failed to meet those needs – for
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