ONC’s Working Session on Patient Identity and Matching: More of the Same
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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ONC Tech Forum 2020: An Attendee’s Perspective
BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | Events | HIE & Interoperability | Planning
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.
Read more >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 >ONC Releases Pediatric Health IT Developer Informational Resources
BY Noam Arzt ON Immunization Information System (IIS) | AIRA | ASTP/ONC | Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | HL7
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.
Read more >Case Reporting and COVID-19: Open Source Solutions
BY Noam Arzt ON CDC | COVID-19 | CSTE | Disease Surveillance Systems (DSS) | Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) | Emergency Preparedness and Biodefense | FHIR | Open Source | RCKMS
As people begin to spend more time together again, it is critically important that public health agencies do everything they can to help prevent further spread of the infection and continue to monitor the level of infection within the population. A national project has been underway to implement electronic case reporting (eCR).
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 >Leveraging the ICE Open Source Immunization Forecaster during COVID-19
BY Noam Arzt ON Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | COVID-19 | FHIR | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source
Like many things in the age of COVID-19, the vaccine development landscape is unlike anything we have seen in our lifetimes. There are over 100 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines currently in development, many of which are utilizing new technologies not used in any currently licensed vaccine. The potential impact on immunization schedules (clinical guidelines for clinicians) and immunization clinical decision support is significant.
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.
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