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
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Match IT Act: A Good Start but Not Enough
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Matching | Meaningful Use
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.
Read more >Data Linkage and Identity Management – Privacy Protecting Record Linkage (PPRL)
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | COVID-19 | DM | Matching | Public Health | Technology
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.
Read more >ONC Releases Several New Specifications in 2022
BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | ASTP/ONC | COVID-19 | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | Public Health | Technology | TEFCA
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.
Read more >Master Patient Index design and implementation
Leveraging prior work in NYC with open source probabilistic patient matching for research
Read more >ONC’s Working Session on Patient Identity and Matching: More of the Same
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | Events | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | Planning
ONC held a national working session on patient identity and matching during which a wide range of perspectives and technologies were presented.
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 >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 >ONC PMAL Project: Creeping Forward on Patient Matching
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | Matching
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.
Read more >ONC Releases New NPRM on Interoperability: How Might it Affect Public Health? [Updated]
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | 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.
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