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GAO Issues Report on IIS Data Use During COVID Pandemic

Read about a recent GAO Medicaid report related to the use of immunization data during the COVID-19 pandemic

Match IT Act: A Good Start but Not Enough

BY Noam Arzt ON February 27, 2024 EHR/PHR | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Matching | Meaningful Use | ONC

The Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (Match IT) Act of 2024 was recently introduced in the House. Read our perspective in a new blog post.

Data Linkage and Identity Management – Privacy Protecting Record Linkage (PPRL)

In October 2022 the CDC Foundation convened a set of stakeholders to discuss Privacy Protecting Record Linkage (PPRL). HLN was asked to prepare a summary of this stakeholder session for reference by public agencies considering using PPRL in their systems.

ONC Releases Several New Specifications in 2022

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) started off the new year by releasing several new specifications supporting health information interoperability.

Master Patient Index design and implementation

BY Noam Arzt Matching

Leveraging prior work in NYC with open source probabilistic patient matching for research

ONC’s Working Session on Patient Identity and Matching: More of the Same

BY Noam Arzt ON September 8, 2020 Events | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | ONC | Planning

ONC held a national working session on patient identity and matching during which a wide range of perspectives and technologies were presented.

ONC Releases Final Rule on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health? [Revised]

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.

New eHI Report: State of Patient Matching in America

BY Noam Arzt ON March 24, 2020 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.

ONC PMAL Project: Creeping Forward on Patient Matching

BY Noam Arzt ON September 18, 2019 Matching | ONC

Last week, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the final report from its Patient Matching, Aggregation, and Linking (PMAL) Project, as well as an additional report describing a pilot project to test the Patient Demographic Data Quality Framework (PDDQ) to Support Patient Matching that was released several years ago. This project was funded from June 2015 through September 2018 by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Trust Fund.

ONC Releases New NPRM on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health? [Updated]

BY Noam Arzt ON February 27, 2019 EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | ONC | Planning

On February 11, 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Improve the Interoperability of Health Information. Referred to by some people as the “Information Blocking NPRM,” since this was the primary topic anticipated, the document actually covers a host of other topics related to interoperability driven primarily by requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act.