Health Information Exchange (HIE)

ONC chief Micky Tripathi spoke at HIMSS22 alongside Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the CDC's deputy director for public health science and surveillance. Both see long-needed improvements ahead for data exchange and public health reporting.

At HIMSS22, leaders from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the Sequoia Project and other organizations discussed the future of individual access to data.

The new standard will define electronic interactions among identity providers, electronic health record systems, health information exchanges, health information networks and a record locator service.

Dr. Shaun Grannis and Suranga Kasturi talk through a recent study from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University showing how machine learning can help inform public health.

The organization's Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup convened multiple times over the course of several months to analyze gaps in current strategies to address the COVID-19 pandemic.

The past year's numbers bring the Direct Secure Message totals to nearly 3 billion, with more than 254 million sent and received in the last quarter.

The CEO of Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network says state and regional data exchanges can offer "unique and indispensable value" to their participants. He'll explain more at HIMSS22.

As Medicaid programs determine what's next for health IT investments, state and regional HIEs, increasingly serving as "health data utilities," are natural partners to build on current programs with Medicaid Enterprise System funding.

A data sharing expert offers readers a deep dive into the new Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement from the ONC.

In a preview of his HIMSS22 session, the health system's associate CMIO describes how it worked with the state HIE to bring patient end-of-life preferences into Epic.