Category: Interoperability

Last October at the CHIME Fall Forum, Intermountain Healthcare’s CIO Marc Probst said that it was time to move on from the meaningful use program. At HIMSS15, he still stands by that declaration. Last October, at the the CHIME Fall Forum in San Antonio, Texas, Marc Probst, vice president and CIO at the Salt Lake…

In the draft Interoperability Roadmap, ONC committed to helping individuals, providers, and the health and health IT community better understand how existing federal law — the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) — supports interoperable exchange of information for health. Today, we take a first step to fulfill that commitment and published the revised…

The secure, appropriate, and efficient sharing of electronic health information is the foundation of an interoperable learning health system—one that uses information and technology to deliver better care, spend health dollars more wisely, and advance the health of everyone. Today we delivered a new Report to Congress on Health Information Blocking that examines allegations that…

FTC: Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap DRAFT Version 1.0 The FTC sends a 14-page letter to national coordinator for health IT Karen DeSalvo, MD commenting on its interoperability roadmap, agreeing that its full implementation has the potential to benefit patients and providers, but also warns that both health systems and vendors may resist. HIStalk Practice Interviews…

The Center for Medical Interoperability has announced its board of directors, which officials say is the next step to jumpstart the creation of a platform to achieve integration of medical technologies in a plug-and-play manner. The Center for Medical Interoperability has announced its board of directors, which officials say is the next step to jumpstart…

Top News The Federal Trade Commission likes ONC’s interoperability roadmap for the most part, but observes that interoperability will continue to be hampered by the competitive interests of providers and vendors. It also gently warns ONC that its strategy of using policy and funding levers to create interoperability demand might encourage less innovation than if…

Allscripts To Pay $10M To End Investor Suit Over Merger Woes Allscripts will pay $10 million to settle a class action lawsuit with its shareholders stemming from its 2010 Eclipsys acquisition, which shareholders say was presented with overly optimistic integration plans and revenue projections. Premier comments on ONC Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Premier comments on ONC’s…

0 In his interview with me last month, David Watson of Cal INDEX, the statewide HIE established last month in California, addressed some concerns that really speak to core sustainability issues for statewide HIEs It was both informative and enlightening to speak with David Watson on March 23 in Washington, D.C., just after he had…

Jitin Asnaani, the new executive director of the CommonWell Health Alliance, speaks exclusively to Healthcare Informatics in this Q&A. He touches on the group’s back-and-forth with Epic, its progress in developing a patient record locator, and other pertinent topics. Two years can fly by fast. CommonWell Health Alliance, an industry trade group made up of…

By John Halamka The HL7 Ballot for the Argonaut-related FHIR specifications opens today as promised. Here’s an overview with a list of the structured data elements to be exchanged through query/retrieve application program interfaces. This approach will usher in a new era of interoperability. Comments are welcome! …read more Source:: http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-first-argonaut-deliverable.html