ONC Pleased with its Own Work
By William A. Hyman – The 700 plus page ONC Proposed Rule on “21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program” was released on February 11, 2019.
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New HLC and BPC Report Calls for Public and Private Sector Actions
The Healthcare Leadership Council and Bipartisan Policy Center are releasing a new report that recommends public and private sector actions that will advance health IT interoperability, giving providers easier access to patients’ clinical data and empowering individuals.
Healthcare Leadership Council Panel Discussion at HIMSS19
A special panel event at HIMSS19 with industry experts on advancing interoperability. Healthcare Leadership Council and the Bipartisan Policy Center discussed what we must due to enable access to health information.
Driving The Charge To HIT Interoperability
Ten years after the federal government’s massive investment in health information technology via the 2009 stimulus package, experts from across the healthcare spectrum will identify progress made and where gaps remain at a special event during the HIMSS 2019 conference.
Another 734 Pages from ONC
By William A. Hyman – ONC has released another Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, this time entitled 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program. It comes in at 734 pages.
Interview with Don Rucker on Notice of Proposed Rule Making
Fred Goldstein catches up with ONC’s Donald Rucker shortly after his keynote address at the HIMSS pre-conference NHIT Summit announcing the Notice of Proposed Rule Making.
Three Myths about Interoperability in Healthcare
By Drew Ivan – Over the last decade, achieving true interoperability has been an ongoing pain point across the healthcare ecosystem. Provider organizations and payers alike have been slow to implement this technology under the guise that interoperability is complicated and potentially, not fully attainable.
Three Must-Haves for Turning Healthcare Data into Healthcare Policy
By Luis Castillo – We’re awash in data. It’s on our phones, it’s saved on our computers, our networks. It’s in the cloud. In a relatively short period of time, we’ve gone from an analog world where data was exceedingly rare to an era where there’s literally more data available than humans could possibly process.
The Current and Future State of Interoperability
The timing of our 3rd annual Interoperability Panel Discussion couldn’t be better, following in the wake of National Health IT Week in October. Healthcare attorney…