Health Information Exchange (HIE)

To promote exchanging public health data, the electronic information sharing network will waive annual fees for three years to the first five health information exchanges that agree to share data on the platform or via TEFCA.

The nonprofit group's Interoperable Secure Cloud Fax Consensus Body aims to add cross-platform identity assurance, standards-based metadata exchange and new federated security standards to facsimile exchange.

PA Navigate will refer patients to services in their communities that address their gaps in social determinants of health, including food, shelter and transportation.

Making better use of social determinants of health information requires meaningful participation from diverse stakeholders, say the team members behind the Georgia Health Information Network's SDOH data exchange blueprint.

The project's recognized coordinating entity has released a series of draft materials to support wider use of the HL7 spec, aiming to address standard operating procedures for electronic case reporting and improve the framework more generally.

The latest update of standards for interoperable health information exchange includes data elements that promote health equity, reduce disparities and support underserved communities.

The government is doubling down on modernising My Health Record and building a framework for national health information sharing. 

The American Hospital Association questions the agency's calculations, and said the proposed information blocking penalties could threaten the financial viability of many small and rural hospitals.

A provider's digital transformation expert and consultant shows how regular care paradigms will continue to erode, the big four retail healthcare players will begin to execute their plans, and the fax machine will at long last (gulp) die.

Five QHINs have completed the onboarding process, according to ONC, and will now drive higher levels of healthcare information interoperability across the U.S.