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HLN Participates in NACCHO 360 Virtual Conference
BY Noam Arzt ON Events | HIE & Interoperability | NACCHO
Dr. Noam Arzt, President of HLN, recorded a session for the NACCHO360 Virtual Conference available during the week of July 6 for registered attendees in the Information and Technology track. Titled, “Interoperability Update for Public Health: What’s In Store for the Coming Decade,” this talk reviews major developments in healthcare interoperability that will affect public health over the coming years.
Read more >Senate White Paper: Preparing for the Next Pandemic
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | CDC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | COVID-19 | CSTE | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | FHIR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Open Source | RCKMS
On June 10, 2020 the US Senate released a white paper titled “Preparing for the Next Pandemic” under the signature of Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. The white paper has five recommendations to address future pandemics based on lessons learned from COVID-19 and the past 20 years of pandemic planning.
Read more >ONC Releases Final Rule on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health? [Revised]
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Matching | Meaningful Use | Planning
On March 9, 2020 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its final rule on the 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking, and the ONC Health IT Certification Program. Referred to by some people as the “Information Blocking Rule,” since this is the primary topic, the document actually covers a host of other issues related to interoperability driven primarily by requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Read more >ONC Releases Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden Relating to the Use of Health IT and EHRs
BY Noam Arzt ON HIE & Interoperability | ASTP/ONC | Meaningful Use
The report is divided into the same four major sections as the version released for comment back in 2018 (see our previous blog), each covering a different area: clinical documentation; health IT usability and the user experience; EHR reporting; and public health reporting. For each section, the report briefly lays out the issues and challenges and provides some key strategies and recommendations.
Read more >New eHI Report: State of Patient Matching in America
BY Noam Arzt ON HIE & Interoperability | Matching
In February 2020 the eHealth Initiative (eHI) published a new report, The State of Patient Matching in America, based on a survey of over 115 health information exchange (HIE) and provider organizations conducted by NextGate on their behalf.
Read more >HLN Attends ONC 2020 Annual Meeting
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | ASTP/ONC | Events | HIE & Interoperability | Planning | TEFCA
HLN’s Noam Arzt and Michael Suralik attended the tenth ONC Annual Meeting held on January 27-28 in Washington, DC. More than 1,200 individuals attended in person supplemented by remote attendees for the plenary sessions. Throughout the two-day event, ONC provided interesting speakers, engaging panels on a variety of topics, and ample time to network with colleagues and friends.
Read more >ONC 2020-2025 Strategic Plan: Not Much for Public Health
BY Noam Arzt ON HIE & Interoperability | ASTP/ONC | Planning
In December 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and invited public comment. The plan is intended not only to provide a roadmap to Federal agencies but also to “…provide signals to the private sector on the direction of the federal government, which may guide coordination and investment decisions” and serve as a “catalyst for activities”
Read more >CMS Promoting Interoperability in 2021: All good things must come to an end?
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use | Planning
We have spent years involved with the management of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs, recently renamed Promoting Interoperability (PI) programs. In a nutshell, these programs were tied to the Medicare and Medicaid insurance programs and provided financial incentives over a number of years to ambulatory providers and hospitals to adopt and use EHRs.
Read more >HLN Attends Sequoia Project Annual Meeting On TEFCA
BY Michael J. Suralik ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | Events | HIE & Interoperability | TEFCA
On December 5, 2019, Michael Suralik, project manager at HLN, attended The Sequoia Project’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. TEFCA and Information Blocking were the big topics of the day. It was a very substantive meeting and there was vibrant back and forth discussion and exchange of ideas between and among the presenters and the other meeting participants.
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