Health Information Exchange (HIE)
As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.
How will qualified health information networks eventually connect directly to each other to give clinicians and first responders access to complete medical records? Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies, explains.
Transitioning to value-based care models can pose a challenge for integrated delivery networks (IDNs) that work with providers across a wide spectrum of services. The need to align multiple clinical practices’ disparate IT systems makes communication and collaboration difficult.
The release of CA v2.0, updated to require support for API exchange using the HL7 spec, allows TEFCA to "keep pace with the advanced, secure data services approaches" employed by the larger tech industry, says National Coordinator Micky Tripathi.
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The "outcomes-driven" strategy for the rest of this decade is focused on key goals: boosting access to electronic health information, improving the patient experience by prioritizing health equity and modernizing public health infrastructure.
Because a high-risk flag had been inactivated in the hospital’s new Oracle electronic health record, clinicians did not evaluate a veteran's mental health and medication restart request, contributing to an overdose seven weeks after a missed appointment.
Emergency medical response information isn't used enough in healthcare. Agencies are looking to align with TEFCA, seeking partners to improve interoperability with state EMS systems and to build out technical resources for bidirectional exchange.
Also, a "baseline" API standards have been released for the New Zealand health sector.
A deep dive on qualified health information networks from Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies, a designated QHIN, who also discusses how he is working with two major EHR vendors and numerous smaller ambulatory practices on interoperability.