Andrea Fox

Making better use of social determinants of health information requires meaningful participation from diverse stakeholders, say the team members behind the Georgia Health Information Network's SDOH data exchange blueprint.

The project's recognized coordinating entity has released a series of draft materials to support wider use of the HL7 spec, aiming to address standard operating procedures for electronic case reporting and improve the framework more generally.

The latest update of standards for interoperable health information exchange includes data elements that promote health equity, reduce disparities and support underserved communities.

More than 150 hospitals and health systems currently use the DAX Copilot in their Epic electronic health record workflows to draft clinical notes and record patient visits, the company says.

ARPA-H is launching a program to deliver acute care in rural settings via a multipurpose delivery platform "that is as convenient as telehealth."

By adding the digital marketing and customer relationship management platform, which leverages machine learning and AI for patient engagement, the company aims to improve patient experiences in value-based care.

Stacy Sanders will be tasked with supporting competition that can help lower healthcare and prescription drug costs and will coordinate with the FTC and DOJ to address anticompetitive healthcare technology data practices.

"Finding out the patient is high-risk after they are diagnosed with cancer is too late," says Dr. Eric Brown, surgical oncologist and breast multidisciplinary team co-lead.

EHRA, HIMSS and others cite regulatory variability and redundancy, as well as costs, as roadblocks to interoperable health information exchange, while ACR stresses investigatory protections for physicians.

The health system has partnered with Cerebras to develop artificial intelligence models based on decades of anonymized medical records.