Interoperability

Walgreens, Costco, CVS and others said they would use existing IT systems to help customers track their vaccination dosage schedule.  

The electronic health record giant said that health systems had shared more than 221 million patient records in a one-month period this fall.

Diameter Health Chief Commercial Officer Terry Boch discusses the latest interoperability rules and the regulatory and data landscape in health tech.

The proposed rule aims to enhance patient access and smooth API-enabled data exchange by requiring the use of specific HL7 FHIR implementation guides by payers.

The new proposed rule would "break down barriers that have stood in the way of commonsense care coordination and value-based arrangements for far too long," says HHS Secretary Alex Azar.

Healthcare organizations can use Amazon HealthLake to aggregate information into a centralized, searchable lake and normalize it using machine learning and FHIR.

The representatives said they're optimistic about the legislation's forward movement, given President-Elect Joe Biden's support for the 21st Century Cures Act when he was last in the White House.

The agency aims to issue a unified industry-wide specification for representing addresses by the end of 2021.

The international quality standard demonstrates the use of technology, data and analytics to support inpatient care. 

Its Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program aims to help healthcare organizations understand and prep for the new rules, assess their own interoperability maturity and build new API-based exchange capabilities.