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Market Trends for Patient Access
The notion that patients should have access to their health records goes back to 1973. In a New England Journal of Medicine article titled, “Giving Every Patient His Medical Record: A Proposal to Improve the System”, it was argued that “four serious problems:...
APIs are Key for Health Interoperability and Data Exchange
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the core feature of interoperability infrastructure for health data exchange. Application programming interface (API) in healthcare EHR systems are the key to reinvent health data exchange interoperability. API adoption is...
“Without Special Effort”
The path to patient access of their medical records and information has been a cornerstone of the push to interoperability starting with HITECH and the final rules of the 21st Century Cures Act enacted in May of 2020. Allowing digital patient-directed information...
The Government Has Mandated Our Business
“All healthcare service providers must give immediate expanded records access to consumers in a unified, transparent, and standardized way.” “The core goal of the health IT portion of the Cures Act is to provide patients with control of their healthcare and their...
eHealth Exchange Connects First Health Information Exchange Vendor
Now connected to eHealth Exchange, HIE Networks and its clients can now connect to over 75 percent of hospitals across the country. The nation’s largest health information exchange (HIE), eHealth Exchange, made its first vendor connection, HIE Networks. eHealth...
Fostering Innovation
With Health IT 2.0 there is a mandate to build on the patient-centric transformation by providing better, more diverse applications. Health care is following the example set by the rest of the modern digital economy and starting to leverage existing monolithic...