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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

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s Third Interoperability Forum in Washington, D.C., this week featured a panel session on the current state of interoperability. Panelists described a glass-half-full state of affairs 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

Kate Horle, the chief operating officer and privacy officer for the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO), helped draft the response to ONC from the Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative (SHIEC) of which CORHIO is a member. She stresses that SHIEC was encouraged by several changes ONC made in response to stakeholder responses to the first draft. Read More

Finally, the jail is partnering with the Colorado Office of Behavioral Health and the state’s health information exchange networks, CORHIO and Quality Health Network, to bring new data sharing capabilities to the county. Read More

92 percent of the U.S. population is served by HIEs in survey results released by SHIEC at the start of 5th Annual National Conference in National Harbor, Maryland August 19-21, 2019 Read More

Interestingly, ambulatory groups are among the leaders in adopting precision medicine, overtaking many larger organizations and academic centers, especially in pharmacogenomics (PGx). Read More

Adopting health data standards in a consistent and comprehensive manner will be key to enabling meaningful healthcare interoperability. Read More

Just 2 percent of acute care and LTPAC providers are only using IT-driven strategies to coordinate patient care and transfer data, the data showed Read More

Hospitals badly want Congress to waive the statute known as 42 CFR Part 2 and its dictates that only substance-use disorder, or SUD, patients themselves can decide who sees their medical history. They argue that given the stakes with widespread opioid addiction, it's risky to ban doctors from sharing medical histories when appropriate. Read More