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Healthcare organizations including ONC, Advocate Health, Mt. Sinai, Tufts Medicine, UC Davis Health and the VA are participating, and will share implementation tips and best practices to enable broader adoption of the interoperability standard.

CMS progress on healthcare interoperability

A healthcare system in which stakeholders share, adopt and apply medical knowledge in real time enables improved care, accelerated workflows, streamlined business processes and a better balance of resources with demand.

Access to a complete picture of the patient – including the behavioral and environmental factors that influence daily health – is critical to realizing the shared benefits of value-based, holistic care.

In 2019, it offered more than 2.6 million telehealth episodes of care to more than 900,000 veterans. At HIMSS20, a VA leader will show how this, plus innovations such as My HealtheVet and Blue Button, is boosting veterans' patient experience.

The Blue Button API pilot, Data at the Point of Care, aims to connect clinicians with claims data, giving them deeper insights into their patients' care history.

Despite one senator's hope to move deliberately with rulemakings and not repeat some errors of meaningful use, National Coordinator Donald Rucker said delays only lengthen the time that consumers are "not in control of their care."

The insurance group says it's supportive of more data sharing, but says CMS' timeline for API-enabled access is too aggressive.

Offerings include record locator service, identity management and document retrieval, the company says.

Tech titans set their sights on interoperability, Judy Faulkner shared advice for women in health IT and big data breaches continued – revisit those stories and others in our look back at the past 12 months.