Are We Entering an Interoperability Trust Recession?
Here’s what healthcare entities should know about the maturing landscape, what to actually be concerned about, and the next stage of healthcare data evolution as we know it.
What Data Delays Are Costing Healthcare — And Its Patients
Timely, usable data closes care gaps and improves operations, but healthcare organizations lack access.
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The Healthcare Payments Industry Faces a Perception Challenge
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
What Is HHS Proposing in Its New Rule?
HHS proposed changes that would roll back many Biden-era policies, eliminate most health tech certification criteria,and scrap planned transparency requirements for healthcare AI tools. The agency argues the move will reduce regulatory burden and save developers time and money.
Inside the VA and ONC’s Vision for a More Connected Healthcare System
Leaders from the VA and the ONC discussed how the future of U.S. healthcare will rely on both technology and creative problem-solving during a panel at DiMe’s Healthcare 2030 Summit.
EMR Interoperability Isn’t Just a Hospital Problem. EMS Teams Need It Too.
In an era of real-time data, emergency response teams can no longer afford to operate in silos. EMR interoperability is essential to improving care continuity, outcomes, and decision-making — from curb to discharge.
What’s Included In HHS’ New Interoperability Proposal?
This week, HHS issued its HTI-2 proposal — a new proposed rule to improve healthcare data sharing among providers, payers, patients and public health organizations. It comes just seven months after HHS issued its HTI-1 rule.
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Closing the Quality-Affordability Gap in Workplace Mental Health
In an interview, Kyan Health Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Konstantin Struck discussed how Kyan gives mid-market and enterprise employers access to premium workforce mental healthcare, at a price point that is affordable.
ONC Chief: New AI Transparency Rule Should Drive Higher Quality Tools & More AI Adoption
Micky Tripathi, head of The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), thinks his office’s recent rule on AI transparency will spur greater adoption of AI tools in healthcare, as well as potentially drive higher quality AI-based products.
Tools for Better Data Interoperability Are Here — But Providers Aren’t Adopting Them
There are plenty tools and data sharing standards available to foster a more cohesive and integrated approach to healthcare interoperability. However, providers aren't really adopting these tools, experts said during a recent panel.
Why a Former ONC Chief Thinks TEFCA Is Inherently Flawed
Last week, the ONC announced that TEFCA had finally gone live. This followed years of the ONC heralding the project's potential to boost interoperability and increase patients’ access to their healthcare data. However, former ONC Chief Don Rucker believes that TEFCA is built on an archaic data exchange protocol that will prevent the initiative from being useful.
Navigating the Challenges of Price Transparency: Highlights from ViVE
The ViVE conference in Nashville, powered by HLTH and CHIME, offered an overview of the latest developments in health tech spanning interoperability, cybersecurity, price transparency, behavioral health and health equity.
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New Webinar: The Payer AI Readiness Gap: Why Better Data Will Define the Next Era of Health Plan Performance
We'll explore why the next era of payer performance will depend on building a trusted data foundation that connects people, providers, and relationships across the enterprise.
Health interoperability with purpose: TEFCA’s impact & (maybe) the beginning of the end of impersonal care
Recently, the ONC revealed its most ambitious healthcare interoperability effort to date with the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). It outlines a common set of principles, terms, and conditions to support the overarching goal of establishing a universal floor for health data interoperability across the country.
ONC’s new interoperability standards support SDOH, sexual orientation data
The ONC has released the new version of the United States Core Data for Interoperability, a set of standards to enable seamless data exchange nationwide. The updated set includes standards for exchanging data related to social determinants of health, sexual orientation and gender identity.
ONC Chief: Data standardization key to integrating public health into info-sharing infrastructure
The Covid-19 pandemic shone a harsh light on how siloed the public health infrastructure is, and the ONC is working along with other government agencies to integrate it with the existing data-sharing ecosystem. According to Dr. Micky Tripathi, head of the agency, standardizing data will be essential to this integration.
Dr. Micky Tripathi on interoperability, health equity & how his work with VCs will help him lead the ONC
In a wide-ranging interview, the National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. Micky Tripathi discussed his career and how his varied experiences have expanded his perspective. He also spoke about ONC's plans for the future, which include "evangelizing" about the opportunities the federal interoperability rules will create for the industry.
After building interoperability roadmap, Omada’s chief privacy officer sees it come into place
Omada’s chief privacy and regulatory officer shared how she set the stage for new interoperability rules while working at the ONC, and how digital health companies should navigate them.