Health Information Exchange (HIE)
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.
In its new HTI-2 proposed rule, the Office of the National Coordinator is hoping FHIR-focused interoperability criteria will ignite payers and public health and others to embrace broader information sharing goals.
Flinders University researchers expect their AI-driven data repository to improve public health surveillance and response.
Not only are the HHS information blocking disincentives too steep, but they could also interrupt accountable care organizations' shift to value-based care, the organizations argue. Meanwhile, the EHR Association says the regs are "too narrowly focused."
The partnership will help connect service members – active-duty military and veterans – with their electronic data via the statewide health information exchange.
The federal agency has been receiving performance data from a cohort of funded health centers testing data exchange through standards-based APIs, according to ONC's USCDI program and the UDS Test Cooperative.
Collaborations and integrations aim to streamline access to patient medical histories via national networks, drive more proactive pediatric care, expand behavioral telehealth and pioneer more hospital automation.