Health Information Exchange (HIE)

Sam Shah, digital health advisor and former NHSX director of digital development, says personal health records, health information exchange and other digital health learnings can be extracted from the Middle East experiences.

The number of healthcare organizations served by DirectTrust health information service providers and engaged in Direct exchange was up nearly 75% in Q3. New members include Konica Minolta and the Social Security Administration.

They'll create and update new standards, profiles and implementation guides, helping to transition to more modern APIs that make it easier to  exchange data securely via smartphone.

An alphabet soup of healthcare stakeholders, including AHIMA, CHIME, MGMA and others, want the Senate HELP Committee to ensure the proposed regs serve the "needs of patients and those who deliver their care."

The vision for Malaffi is to ultimately connect over 2,000 public and private healthcare providers in Abu Dhabi.

Two interoperability projects will get a funding boost from the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology, or LEAP in Health IT program, launched by the The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information IT.

While the agencies will no longer maintain or update the CONNECT wiki, it will continue to exist as an open source project whose code and community resources can be "used, adopted and implemented by any interested organization."

The nonprofit interoperability group will lead development, implementation and maintenance of the common agreement aspects of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

Deloitte shows how many providers – and even more payers – are going beyond checking boxes on new regs, understanding that wider data sharing has become a strategic necessity.

The mission control, built in collaboration with GE Healthcare, will help the health system manage patient decision support across nine Florida hospitals.