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This week's top stories include the Patient ID Now coalition releasing a framework for protecting patient information, President Biden sharing his goal to lower ACA premiums, and Accolade moving into the telemedicine space.

The National Coordinator for Health IT discusses the new information blocking rules, the value of FHIR and open APIs and how data exchange is evolving for a more robust public health response.

Antoinette Thomas, chief patient experience officer for Microsoft Health and Life Sciences, discusses three things healthcare systems need to focus on as they move forward with their digital transformation.

Christine Czerniak, technical officer of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, says new variants highlight the need for genomic surveillance and sequencing across the globe and reinforce the importance of collaboration in the fight against COVID-19.

Digital infrastructure and interoperability have helped Germany make significant progress in digitizing the patient journey, says Jörg Debatin, chairman of the Health Innovation Hub.

Sean Kennedy, VP and GM of the Public Health Sector at Salesforce, says modernizing contact centers with the latest in omnichannel capabilities enables contact center agents to quickly respond to the needs of patients.

This week's top stories include a consumer safety group warning parents to stop using Peloton Tread+ after reports of child injuries and death, nurses giving EHR usability an "F" and HHS vowing to tackle racism as a serious public health threat.

Israel has found both innovation and data instrumental in tackling COVID-19 challenges and improving patient outcomes, says professor Ran Balicer, chief innovation officer of Clalit Health Services in Israel.

In this new episode of HIT Cybersecurity, Lee Kim, HIMSS' director of privacy and security, talks with a panel of infosec experts about what they're seeing on the front lines.

HealthEC CIO Sita Kapoor discusses the four elements that make up the next stage in the evolution of population health.