Interoperability
Larger companies are taking an "all or nothing" approach in light of proposed legislation, one HIE leader says, but electronic health record developers can look to modernized data lakes for inspiration and place guardrails around PHI.
New York's HEALTHeLINK and Boston Children's Hospital are recognized by HHS for their exploration of advanced FHIR capabilities and USCDI data quality improvement, respectively.
With a cohort of health systems including Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, Stanford Health and others, its QHIN efforts are aimed at advancing information exchange at providers nationwide, says Matt Doyle, interoperability software development lead at Epic.
The Behavioral Health Information Technology Coordination Act would also direct ONC and SAMHSA to develop voluntary standards for mental health electronic health records and work with CMS to promote their adoption and interoperability.
John Nebergall, COO of Consensus Cloud Solutions, explains why interoperability standards must make the transition from securing patient health data to delivering a clear output for clinicians, and how AI can help.
As part of its digital transformation, the private healthcare provider is building a data hub to operationalise data and deliver insights-driven care.
SPMS' Dr Cátia Pinto explains how Portugal will advance its digital health transformation with the EU R&R fund. Citizens will have access to their health records in a national data lake that will integrate with EHDS.
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Edward Yurcisin, chief technology officer at the NCQA, says the organization is using its open-source CQL engine to digitize HEDIS measures and others to improve the quality of healthcare in the U.S. and internationally with FHIR.
The platform seeks to unify data held by over 28 health system entities.