BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Meaningful Use | ONC | Public Health | TEFCA
On May 10, 2022 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) related to changes in the Medicare Program Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System.
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As part of the ONC Health IT Certification Program, Congress mandated the establishment of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) Reporting Program to help determine the effectiveness of the program.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON COVID-19 | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Matching | ONC | 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.
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On January 18, 2022 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) finally released version 1 of the Trusted Exchange Framework, Common Agreement and the QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network) Technical Framework (QTF). These documents represent the latest attempt at initiating a national health information exchange in the United States.
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ONC held a national working session on patient identity and matching during which a wide range of perspectives and technologies were presented.
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HLN attended the ONC summer Tech Forum in August 2020 which brought together over 1,500 industry experts and Federal partners to discuss technical innovations in health information technology and their potential impacts on the healthcare ecosystem.
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Helping Federally-funded state-level health information exchange projects be successful
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON AIRA | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | ONC
The primary purpose of the guide is to assist electronic health record (EHR) software developers in improving their products to better support pediatric health requirements.
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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.
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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.
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