Beginning September 1, HHS’ Office of the Inspector General will begin enforcing the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. EHR vendors are the entities that are most at risk of being fined — they could face penalties up to $1 million.
The next generation of HIEs must think beyond the transfer of information and explore how they can use real-time health data to improve population health outcomes, according to the CEO of Nebraska's HIE. A key way that her HIE is seeking to improve population health outcomes is through a program it launched six months ago to improve equity in maternal and postpartum care through identifying high-risk patients and sharing real-time information with providers.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Full EHR interoperability and data standardization remain the holy grail: mysterious and elusive. So hospitals are employing different strategies to access a patient's complete medical history.
It’s not too late for all of us to re-think health IT and bring Hippocrates’ famous quote to life: “Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”
Healthcare information exchanges could provide the missing link between providers, payers and community-based organizations working to address social determinants of health. Efforts in Nebraska and Ohio show the ways in which HIEs could advance care coordination and interoperability.
Health information exchanges know about the hard work of building trust by delivering value in healthcare. They have been in these trenches. They need a seat at the table with our state public health leaders as America works to safely reopen.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Experience, provider engagement and technology innovation from the HIEs and the financial power of the payers create a powerful synergy to drive collaboration with the consumer community and meet the interoperability mandates of 2020.
The $500,000 fund will aid medical practices in sharing clinical information with other doctors and hospitals through health information exchanges.
Do EHRs make healthcare more or less safe? Do physicians spend too much time on EHRs? These are a few of the questions that HEALTHeLink asked 1,000 consumers in Western New York as part of a new survey.
During the Redox and Matter Healthcare Interoperability Summit in Chicago, a panel of investors and executives discussed where we are and where we're going in terms of interoperability in healthcare.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Through its data operating system, the Salt Lake City big data company is seeking to reimagine traditional data warehousing.
In an effort to give clinicians more opportunities to effectively share valuable information, Rush Health has launched a health information exchange called Rush Health Connect.
It’s good to see a good guy get his due. Health IT veteran and friend of MedCity News Brian Ahier this year will be stationed at Aetna’s booth at the upcoming HIMSS conference, touting the Healthagen arm of Medicity as director of standards and government affairs, reports Healthcare IT News‘ Scott Tharler. In essence, the […]
The ONC recently shared a case study on progress of state health information exchange programs, detailing the efforts of six states and finding both progress and gaps for the pursuit of interoperability. No surprisingly, the six states – Iowa, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming – had significantly different challenges given the differing populations, […]
The state of Connecticut got high marks on its health insurance exchange, but when it comes to health information exchanges, it has a long way to go. The Health Information Technology Exchange of Connecticut, the state’s quasi-public agency created to develop a workable HIE, was recently dissolved “after wasting $4.3 million in federal grants and […]