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5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers

by Shanti Wilson, Consultant, Freed Associates 12/07/2020 Leave a Comment

5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers

As if 2020 couldn’t be any more challenging for healthcare providers, new federal rules on interoperability and patient access, granting patients direct access to their healthcare data, begin taking effect in 2021 and will continue into 2022. These rules, while ultimately beneficial to patients, bring an additional level of operational complexity to many revenue-stressed healthcare organizations. If anything, the 2020 pandemic has illustrated the vast potential of interoperability. For
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HHS Extends Compliance Dates for Information Blocking Requirements

by Fred Pennic 10/29/2020 Leave a Comment

What You Should Know: - HHS released an interim final rule to extend compliance dates and timeframes to meet information blocking beyond those identified in April 21, 2020, enforcement discretion announcement and establishes new future applicability dates for information blocking provisions. - The interim final rule also adopts updated standards and makes technical corrections and clarifications to the ONC Cures Act Final Rule. Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’
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HHS Announces Investments for STAR HIE Program to Support State and Local Public Health Agencies

by Fred Pennic 08/12/2020 Leave a Comment

HHS Launches EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge_HHS Funded Health Care Innovation Award Projects to Watch

What You Should Know: - HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will award up to five 5 cooperative agreements under the Strengthening the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange (STAR HIE) Program. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to expand and accelerate innovative
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HHS Taps Fenway Health as Pilot Site for Precision Medicine Project

by Jasmine Pennic 07/14/2020 Leave a Comment

HHS Taps Fenway Health as Pilot Site for Advancing Standards for Precision Medicine Project

What You Should Know: - Fenway Health has been selected as the pilot site to participate in the Advancing Standards for Precision Medicine (ASPM) project. - The ASPM project is focused on how healthcare providers can systematically identify the socio-economic factors that may impact the health of patients in order to provide more individualized care that reflects patients’ needs.  Fenway Health, a Boston, MA-based Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQCHC)
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ONC, The Sequoia Project Continue RCE Efforts to Support Nationwide HIE

by Jasmine Pennic 05/27/2020 Leave a Comment

ONC Awards The Sequoia Project to Serve As Recognized Coordinating Entity to Support Interoperability

The Sequoia Project, selected by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to support the implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), today celebrated program achievements and ONC’s announcement of the availability of approximately $1.1M of funding to continue the public-private engagement for a second year.Progress to DateIn 2019, ONC chose non-profit The Sequoia Project, to be the RCE following a
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COVID-19 Crisis Makes Complying with Data Interoperability a Priority

by Jay Sultan, VP of Healthcare Innovation & Strategy at Cognizant. 05/07/2020 Leave a Comment

Why the COVID-19 Crisis Makes Complying with Interoperability a Priority

With healthcare organizations focused on battling COVID-19, the recent federal healthcare regulation requiring data interoperability may have become an afterthought. However, compliance with this rule will create a powerful tool for fighting COVID-19 recurrences and future pandemics.  If interoperability had gone into effect earlier this year as originally scheduled, many insurance companies and the federal government would now be able to securely share the data they have for most of the
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Apervita Launches Deep Encryption Tech to Stop Payer, Provider Cyber Threats

by Jasmine Pennic 03/27/2020 Leave a Comment

Apervita Launches Deep Encryption Tech to Stop Payer, Provider Cyber Threats

What You Should Know: - Apervita establishes first cloud-based healthcare platform for payers and providers to offer deep encryption of health data. - Additionally, Apervita’s Deep Encryption feature meets requirements of the Office of the National Coordinator’s (ONC) recent Information Blocking final rule, which calls for granular, PHI field-level privacy to support data segmentation, while still allowing for data to be accessible. Apervita, the leading platform for value-based
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Op-Ed: Health Care Is Too Important To Stay The Same

by Brent Shafer, Cerner CEO & Chairman of the Board 03/09/2020 Leave a Comment

Health Care Is Too Important To Stay The Same

Virtually every business around the globe is contending with how to improve the consumer experience in an era of digitization. We live in a world where you can calculate the fastest route to your destination, order dinner to be delivered, have groceries loaded into your fridge, and livestream content from around the world – all from the palm of your hand. So why have we not seen the same strides in health care? In part, because of the inability of patients to access and control their own
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Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?

by Seth Joseph, Managing Director at Summit Health 02/26/2020 Leave a Comment

Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push.  One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as the foundation -- i.e., the platform enabling application development and user access.  But when it comes developing an EHR-based marketplace for
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HHS Issues Strategies & Recommendations to Mitigate EHR-Related Clinician Burden

by Fred Pennic 02/24/2020 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout_Cognitive Overload Documentation Overload

- HHS issues new report outlining the key sources of EHR-related burden, as well as strategies and recommendations to achieve burden reduction goals for healthcare providers. - The HHS report reflects additional input from the more than 200 comments submitted in response to the draft strategy and recommendations. As part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between patients and their doctors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued
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