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In March, MedPage Today
published a story outlining two new interoperability rules issued by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Below we report on what has happened since.
In March, the Trump administration issued two final rules related to interoperability of healthcare records, with administration officials noting that making patient health records portable and accessible is especially critical during incidents such as the COVID-19 outbreak. And yet, the outbreak itself has delayed implementation of some of those same rules.
ONC issued a rule implementing the clinical interoperability provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act dealing with electronic health records (EHR), ONC head Don Rucker explained on a March 9 phone call with reporters. Our rule requires hospitals and doctors to provide software access points endpoints, if you will to their [EHR] databases so that patients ca
Data now streaming in around vaccines, their administration, and efficiency will need to move past previous practices, consultant says.
New federal rules on interoperability between healthcare information systems are poised to make a substantial impact in 2021. On October 30, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
publishedthe final 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan. Patient-centered aspects of the plan describe the goal of having patient care information follow patients from any provider to any other provider, and to be accessible from their smart phones.
HealthLeaders spoke with Seth Hirsch, chief operating officer of
SES Corp., a consulting firm to commercial and government organizations, about interoperability and other major trends impacting healthcare and healthcare IT in the coming year.
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TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Regence and MultiCare Health System have partnered to deploy a first-in-the-nation value-based model that delivers better health outcomes to members at lower costs while simplifying administration for health care providers.
The new approach between Regence and MultiCare Connected Care the Accountable Care Organization that is a wholly owned subsidiary of MultiCare Health System marks a milestone in the evolution of value-based partnerships between insurance payers and providers. The partnership utilized a soon to be published HL7® FHIR® (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) Standard Da Vinci Member Attribution List which was developed by the HL7® Da Vinci Project. This national standard provides an interoperable method to share member attribution data assisting in reducing the burden on provider organizations managing patient data and allowing providers to spend more time with patients