Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Governments need to develop and fund enterprise architecture to solve major health issues like homelessness, according to Gabriel Seidman, director of policy at Ellison Institute of Technology, and his colleagues.
With the European Health Data Space and its associated legislation progressing at pace, HIMSS is working to promote the topic of EU interoperability to a wider audience – starting with its Rome conference in May.
Together with Telstra Health, it will support the mandatory sharing of key health information across Australian care settings following FHIR standards.
To improve vaccine data transfer, public health partnerships are critical, say Sabrina Matlock from the American Immunization Registry Association, Sarah Finley of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, and Kristin Glaza of Oracle Health.
Also, WA Country Health Service is looking for a technology provider for its Virtual Care service.
To promote exchanging public health data, the electronic information sharing network will waive annual fees for three years to the first five health information exchanges that agree to share data on the platform or via TEFCA.
The nonprofit group's Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax Consensus Body aims to add cross-platform identity assurance, standards-based metadata exchange and new federated security standards to facsimile exchange.
PA Navigate will refer patients to services in their communities that address their gaps in social determinants of health, including food, shelter and transportation.
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.