Health Information Exchange (HIE)

The coordinating entity for TEFCA has released new details on Exchange Purposes, Individual Access Services Provider Privacy and Security Notice and Practices.

Health IT leaders and federal officials have spent years attempting to solve the challenges Larry Ellison says his company can fix. Many experts are skeptical. But if Oracle can make it happen, it would be a major achievement for healthcare.

The EHR giant says its 2,000 hospitals and 45,000 clinics will now have the ability to participate in the nationwide interoperability framework developed by ONC and the Sequoia Project.

FDB President Bob Katter sits down with Healthcare IT News to talk electronic prescribing and explain why the country needs a second eRx network after more than 15 years with only one.

Citing a "lack of currently available automated solutions," the hospital group says its members will have difficulty with data exchange between convening providers and co-providers.

Having designated two of its four hospitals as dedicated COVID-19 facilities in 2020, the private healthcare brand had a lot to focus on. But Medcare’s leadership recognised the importance of continuing its digital transformation journey through a critical time.

Electronic health records collect a wealth of data that researchers can use to improve care for mothers and infants. Linking it with other data creates a powerful resource to learn more about clinical and SDOH factors that affect pregnancy.

Ongoing real-time data enables the immediate monitoring of the impact of interventions, rather than waiting months to years to see the effects.

ONC's coordinating entity for TEFCA is seeking feedback on the draft, which details proposed processes and requirements for becoming a Qualified Health Information Network.

The two-year collaboration will focus efforts to extend comprehensive standards for interoperability and specs such as FHIR across the the healthcare community.