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.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | ONC | Planning | TEFCA
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.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | Events | HIE & Interoperability | ONC | 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 >BY Michael Suralik ON EHR/PHR | Events | HIE & Interoperability | ONC | 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.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Meaningful Use | ONC | Planning | TEFCA
On April 17, 2019 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the second draft of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) for comment. The initial version was released more than a year ago in January 2018. As before, this is in response to a requirement imposed by Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Open Source | Planning | TEFCA
On December 3, 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an extensive, 120-page report on the administration’s proposals to reform the healthcare system. Though rich in detail as it tries to prove each of these points, the more than fifty recommendations are often broad and aspirational rather than practical.
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I have seen several pretty good summaries of the recently release Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 2019 Inpatient Prospective Payment System Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to Quality Payment Program (one from AMIA, one from CDC). Here are just a few additional tidbits I picked out of the NPRM.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON HIE & Interoperability | ONC | Planning | TEFCA
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has selected Dr. Noam H. Arzt, President of HLN Consulting (HLN), as a member of the Trusted Exchange Framework Task Force. This group of healthcare and health information technology specialists will advise ONC on various aspects of the Draft Trusted Exchange Framework.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Meaningful Use | ONC | Planning | TEFCA
In January 2018 the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a draft Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), and related supporting documents, in response to a requirement imposed by Congress in the 21st Century Cures Act.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | HL7 | Immunization Information System (IIS) | Meaningful Use | Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) | TEFCA
In the past several years we have seen a real shift in leadership over Health Information Exchange (HIE) in the US. The phase out of the ONC State HIE Cooperative Agreement Program in 2014 marked a real turning point in HIE planning and implementation as ONCs leadership has waned and other more market-driven forces have ascended.
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