Health Information Exchange (HIE)

It will underpin the interoperable connection between My Health Record and aged care digital care management systems.

The qualified health information network says athenahealth, ModuleMD and Solace Health have gone live on its TEFCA platform, which features Carequality access, new security capabilities and more streamlined workflows.

Epic is applauding the move, and says it expects that all of its clients nationwide will be live on the exchange framework by the end of next year, via its Epic Nexus qualified health information network.

At the HIMSS24 Europe Interoperability Showcase, a sample use case demonstrated how Italians can share health records across its multiple regions thanks to the country's adoption of international data standards.

Also: Elevance Health and CDR announced a national primary care platform for risk-based healthcare delivery that takes a whole health approach to improve patient outcomes.

A prehospital health information exchange in Michigan that provides bidirectional interoperability will bridge ambulatory data gaps and enhance care coordination en route to the hospital and during post-discharge care transitions.

This comes as part of its 10-year strategy to improve health outcomes for people living with rare disorders.

Harmony Park Family Medicine also saw turnaround times decrease significantly, with more than half of monthly determinations requiring no authorization – and 70% of prior auth requests sent to Humana being approved instantly.

Another week, another leak of personally identifiable information and protected health information at more than one major health organization. This time, a critical access hospital and a department of public health are attacked by ransomware.

The Australian Digital Health Agency has outlined specific steps to increase the uptake of healthcare identifiers across health facilities.