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Say Hi to EHI
ONC’s information blocking regulations apply to interferences with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information (EHI) (45 CFR Part 171) and define certain exceptions to the definition of information blocking. Thus, it’s important that those subject to...
Why Aren’t More Patients Electronically Accessing Their Medical Records (Yet)?
We need to enable patients to get their data directly (or via the app or service of their choice) and also enable (and create incentives for) provider-based information exchange). Currently, with the lack of financial incentives to share data as well as an...
Cerner CEO David Feinberg Talks About the Digital Health Transformation
“Cerner and frankly other EHR companies have done an incredible job of automating processes in digitizing medical records for more than 40 years,” Feinberg said. “In itself, that's a huge accomplishment. Digitized records, for one, need to be usable. They need to be...
ONC Promoting Precision Medicine With 3rd Party Apps
Progress in genomic testing technology has not only introduced clinical genomic data into medicine, but genomic testing has also become a vital tool to help enhance clinical decision making and, ultimately, precision medicine. Thus, EHR integration is critical to...
Health IT FHIR-Enabled API Adoption Explodes
“The findings show that health IT market leaders, who all support FHIR, drove much of the adoption of certified API technology enabled with FHIR in 2019,” Steven Posnack, MS, MHS, deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and Wes Barker, MS, HHS...
Health Information Exchanges are the key to interoperability and Creating a Nationwide network for patient health data exchange.
Uniform interoperability for health information exchange (HIE) will revolutionize the medical industry through improved care, more complete Patient Health Information (PHI), lower cost from duplicate testing at the care provider admission and evaluation phase....