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CORHIO recently completed an analysis for the North Central Region Healthcare Coalition, evaluating hospital evacuations, deploying ambulances to safely transport patients, and how HIE could help. Read More

There are four main hurdles regarding health data interoperability, Patrick Getzen, senior vice president and chief data and analytics officer at BCBSNC, told an August 21 HHS panel. Read More

For healthcare interoperability to be improved, four things have to happen, Patrick Getzen, senior vice president, chief data and analytics officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina in Durham, said here Wednesday. Read More

Getzen, along with HIE leader Morgan Honea, CEO of the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization, both said the move toward alternative payment models was critical to pushing interoperability forward. Payment reform would push healthcare providers to use interoperability tools to do things like identify diabetics and rising-risk patients, Honea said. Read More

CCIC sat down with Heather Roth, the Deputy Immunization Branch Chief at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), to discuss the Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS) and how it works to benefit Colorado’s public health response efforts, data exchange, and clinical decision making. Read More

The CMS on Wednesday released final rules that cut some of the regulatory mandates for Medicare and Medicaid providers, but discharge planning requirements for hospitals, critical access hospitals and home health agencies. Read More

These disasters shine a spotlight on the importance and value of being able to access patient records—including both clinical and claims data—in real time. And these disasters highlight the role health information exchanges (HIEs) can and must play in connecting all facets of care, from first responders to clinicians to patients and families in search of their loved ones. Read More

As a medical community we have begun to lean on population health to help us understand that relationship and even predict the progression of disease states based off a combination of social determinants, clinical information, and family history. Read More

The promise of blockchain technology couldn’t be greater than in the healthcare sector. Read More

Application programming interfaces (APIs) already allow services, such as travel and personal finance websites and smartphone applications, to organize and display information from multiple sources. If broadly used in health care, APIs based on common standards could also sync data across EHR systems and feed that information into apps that let patients share their medical records with caregivers or alert clinicians... Read More