Health Information Exchange (HIE)
The collaboration will see five of the biggest health data exchanges in the U.S. working with the planned Qualified Health Information Network on the interoperability framework.
Patient identity is a great weakness in healthcare infrastructure, according the physician informaticist who led the algorithm research, which is aimed at boosting interoperability and patient safety.
Cloud-based indexing can fix duplicate patient records, improving interoperability and patient outcomes for health information exchanges like etHIN.
The guide is meant to improve data sharing among providers and public health agencies and enable semantic interoperability between sending and receiving systems, helping healthcare organizations incorporate shared data more easily into clinical workflows.
The seven members with medical, informatics, IT, data and health information exchange expertise will serve a three-year term on the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee.
Its new Connection Hub, which opens to app developers on January 9, 2023, offers another instance of API-enabled information exchange and support for open standards and interoperability, the company says.
Many healthcare organisations in the region have been underutilising volumes of data due to interoperability issues.
Maria Palombini, healthcare and life sciences practice lead at the IEEE Standards Association and a blockchain expert, offers a frank assessment of where distributed ledger technology is making progress and where it's lagging.
The new partnership, focused on social determinants of health, aims to create a statewide mechanism for sharing data referrals, interventions and outcomes among providers and social care agencies.
Also, the ADHA begins its transition to a new health information gateway.