By Thomas Keane MD MBA & Christopher Carroll – Patients with behavioral health conditions are often dually-burdened with chronic physical health conditions. Consequently, providers caring for these patients must coordinate their care to get the best possible health outcomes.
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The Sequoia Project, a non-profit and trusted advocate for nationwide health information technology interoperability, released the draft Pharmacy Care: Use Cases for Health Information Exchange for public comment. The Interoperability Matters Pharmacy Workgroup is seeking feedback through February 13, 2026, via online form.
From the Health IT Buzz Blog – Health information exchange organizations (HIOs) are networks that enable the electronic exchange of health information across participating health care providers, public health agencies, payers, and other entities.
The eHealth Exchange, one of the nation’s largest health information networks connecting federal agencies and providers, launched the eHealth Exchange Innovation Grant program. The program seeks to award as much as $550,000 in grants and other incentives to organizations pursuing…
The virtual Second Annual DirectTrust Summit, June 9-10 will bring together an array of healthcare industry leaders to share ideas and best practices around improving health information exchange and interoperability. The two-day event ensures a robust learning and networking experience for attendees.
DirectTrust announced that its Second Annual DirectTrust Summit has gone virtual. June 9-10 event features plenary sessions by ONC’s Don Rucker and Congressman Bill Foster, live 360X demo, regulatory and identity panel sessions, emerging-use case studies, and networking via live chat rooms.
By Daniel Cidon – Established in nearly every state across the nation, prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are used to track the prescribing, dispensing and use of opioids and other controlled substances.
By William Hersh MD – One of my major projects over the last couple years has been a systematic review of the research that has been conducted on health information exchange (HIE). I wrote about this project when it first started and when our protocol for the review was posted for public comment.
By Cora Alisuag – It has only been about two generations since traveling medicine shows were common forums for medical information. Today’s digital age patients still don’t know what is in their medical records. They need transparency, not secret hospital –vendor contracts and data blocking.