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3…2…1…TEFCA is Go for Launch

By Micky Tripathi & Mariann Yeager – The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement is now available. Within the health information technology world, few things have been as elusive as a governance framework for nationwide health information exchange.

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Today’s the day for Project US@

By Steven Posnack & Carmen Smiley – We recently announced the release of the Project US@ Technical Specification Final Version 1.0 and thereby completed our one year goal to coordinate the creation of a health care specification that could be used across the industry for representing patient addresses (mailing, physical, billing, etc.).



Interoperability and the Connected Health Care System

By Chiquita Brooks-LaSure – The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in our health care system, especially the ability to quickly share and use reliable data to better understand the health needs of all people across the country. This need for more accessible data is why CMS remains committed to making health care data flow more freely…


Annual Reflections at the End of 2021

By William Hersh MD – As is the tradition with this blog, I end each year with a reflective look at the year past and what the future may hold. The year 2021 is not ending quite like I anticipated. At the beginning of the year, there were stirrings of optimism.





Taking a Patient-Centered Approach to Healthcare Tech

By Dan Matthews – Medicine and technology have always gone hand-in-hand. This fact has perhaps never been more apparent today, with some of the most powerful and innovative technologies, from robotics to artificial intelligence to Big Data are proliferating in the modern healthcare industry to fight disease and save lives.