Government & Policy
HIE
Sequoia Project CTO/CIO Eric Heflin joins ONC’s core data project while David Kibbe is leaving his CEO post at DirectTrust.
Electronic Health Records
Responding to Senate Committee’s request, the advocacy group points to interoperability as the biggest challenge to patient safety.
Interoperability
Organizations say that ONC should more closely align TEFCA with interoperability work already happening and relax requirements to avoid disruptive setbacks.
Accountable Care
The lab will offer IT and data vendors two certifications for quality reporting capabilities.
Electronic Health Records
The aim is to streamline interoperability between private systems and IT public health agencies for disease monitoring and outbreak response.
Privacy & Security
The amended bill that would cut breach reporting time in half for healthcare providers, unanimously passed a State House committee meeting last week.
Revenue Cycle
The federal agency aims to help IT decision makers sift through the hype to make "clear-eyed" choices about blockchain.
As part of its FY19 budget request, the agency is looking into how to leverage PDMPs to track suspected abuse to DEA.
Electronic Health Records
VA Committee Chair Phil Roe was also concerned that the amount doesn’t cover maintenance or the cost to update the infrastructure necessary to accommodate the new platform.
FDA budget requests include clinical software, natural language processing and real-time device data
Agency Chief Scott Gottlieb also will establish a Center of Excellence on Digital Health designed to create a new way to evaluate third-party certifiers and supported by a cybersecurity unit.