Interoperability

More hospitals are coming into the fold in the coming months.

The acquisition comes as HealthLink is supporting statewide rollouts of eReferrals in Australia.

The latest update of standards for interoperable health information exchange includes data elements that promote health equity, reduce disparities and support underserved communities.

Impacted payers need to send prior authorization decisions within 72 hours for urgent requests and seven days for standard requests.

The New Jersey health system's CIDO Sunil Dadlan explains how his teams have worked to implement effective and ethical AI, and offers perspective on challenges around regulations, workforce and interoperability.

EHRA, HIMSS and others cite regulatory variability and redundancy, as well as costs, as roadblocks to interoperable health information exchange, while ACR stresses investigatory protections for physicians.

The American Hospital Association questions the agency's calculations, and said the proposed information blocking penalties could threaten the financial viability of many small and rural hospitals.

The Medical Group Management Association says ONC's proposed rules add undue financial burden to practices and would affect the delivery of Medicare and value-based care.

The agency said the new strategy is critical to achieving its goal of reducing cancer deaths by 50% and improving the burdens of cancer treatments on patients and families.

Despite broad concern by health IT developers and owners, some deadlines have been pushed out in HTI-1, the new federal rule governing certification, AI transparency and other standards, while those for decision support algorithms have not.