Grace Cordovano, PhD, Founder of Enlightening Results, co-Founder of Unblock Health, and a devoted patient advocate, says that administrative burdens and failures at data sharing affect more than...
Amazing how a trivial detail such as a postal address can cause so many headaches and so much waste. But in health care, a lack of address standardization is a major barrier to important aspects ...
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2024/03/29/its-time-to-get-patient-addresses-straight/
Many of us look forward to digital interactions in health care that work as simply as a retail sale or airline reservation. Don Rucker, MD, chief strategy officer at 1upHealth, shows us in this v...
The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article is the third in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. New data standards announced las...
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) keeps releasing new rules to address the urgent need for data exchange. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) was followed rec...
It never ceases to amaze me how integral the role of the pharmacist could be to a patient and how many pharmacists are relegated to counting pills and checking insurance. I first experienced th...
We previously shared ONC’s big QHIN announcement which shared the names of five officially designated QHINs as part of TEFCA: eHealth Exchange Epic Nexus Health Gorilla KONZA MedAllies No doubt...
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2023/12/20/qhin-reactions-at-the-onc-annual-meeting/
It’s not a huge surprise that the week of the ONC Meeting, they would make a number of big announcements for those of us in health IT. The first was the announcement of the first official QHI...
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2023/12/14/big-onc-news-qhins-tefca-and-hti-1/
The following is a guest article by Nick Barger, PharmD, Vice President, Product at DrFirst. This article is the second in the Healthcare Regulatory Talk series. More regulatory churn is coming...
Dr. Michael Blackman, Chief Medical Officer at Greenway Health always has his finger on the pulse of healthcare. Right now, he is keeping his eye on the HTI-1 rule from the ONC, the pace of chang...
https://www.healthcareittoday.com/2023/11/28/policy-change-and-ai-oh-my/