By Jim Tate – The path to interoperability of healthcare data is proving to be a long and winding road. “The right data, at the right place, at the right time” has become the mantra. The emergence of TEFCA is the most recent and far-reaching effort to achieve cross platform access to healthcare data.
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By Jawanna Henry & Wei Chang – Complete and accurate information on a patient’s social determinants of health, including specific needs related to food, housing, and transportation insecurity, can help their clinicians and social services providers take a more holistic approach to an individual’s health and well-being.
By Yuriy Pylypchuk & Wes Barker – In 2020, as the U.S. health care system faced the unprecedented challenge of combating the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine emerged as an invaluable care delivery tool; both providers and patients heavily relied on it for providing and receiving care.
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CMS has opened the data submission period for MIPS eligible clinicians who participated in the 2022 performance year of the Quality Payment Program. Data can be submitted and updated until 8:00 p.m. ET on March 31, 2023.
By Seth Pazinski, Peter Karras, & Kim Lundberg – A new ONC report to Congress updating progress on the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information is now available. Hundreds of thousands of physician offices, hospitals, and health systems across the U.S. have transitioned from…
By Steven Posnack – In case you missed it, Health Datapalooza happened toward the end of February. The aptly named conference always invokes a bit of fun while at the same time being a high octane mix of data scientists, policy makers, health care leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and patient advocates.
By Alex Baker – CMS proposed two important new rules in December 2022 which, if finalized, would advance electronic health information exchange and streamline cumbersome health care processes by establishing standardized requirements across the industry.
By Anmer Ayala – The public comment period for the 2023 Standards Version Advancement Process is now open. The SVAP allows Certified Health IT Developers to voluntarily update their Health IT Modules to newer versions of standards and provide these updates to their customers.