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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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Innovaccer Launches FHIR Enabled Data Activation Platform to Power Innovation to Care as One

by Jasmine Pennic 05/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Innovaccer Launches FHIR Enabled Data Activation Platform to Power Innovation to Care as One

What You Should Know: - In accordance with ONC's latest interoperability rule, 21st Century Cures Act, Innovaccer has launched its FHIR® Enabled Data Activation Platform. - The platform provides a rich set of capabilities from scalable FHIR application programming interfaces (APIs), optimized FHIR data lake, best-in-class API gateway, hundreds of analytical enrichments like HEDIS scores, and cloud infrastructure. - The platform is already deployed at several of our customer sites
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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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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened

by Jasmine Pennic 03/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Coronavirus Forces Cancellation of 2020 HIMSS Conference: 6 Things to Know

What You Need to Know: Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened. - Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more. –Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care “Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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Patient Data Liberation: HHS Releases Final Interoperability & Patient Access Rules

by Fred Pennic 03/09/2020 Leave a Comment

What You Need to Know: - HHS finalizes interoperability rules that will implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and support President Trump’s MyHealthEData initiative.  - The ONC Final Rule identifies and finalizes the reasonable and necessary activities that do not constitute information blocking while establishing new rules to prevent “information blocking” practices (e.g., anti-competitive behaviors) by
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds

by Fred Pennic 03/09/2020 Leave a Comment

Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds

What You Need to Know: - New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent). - Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities. - 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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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

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- 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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