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3 Interoperability Considerations For Health Plans

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. A lack of interoperability permeates U.S Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bobby Sherwood, vice president of product development, GuidingCare. healthcare.

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3 Compelling Reasons — Beyond the Law — to Expand Consumer Access to Personal Records

HIT Consultant

Our industry has undergone several iterations of consumer data protection rules — starting in 1996 with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA ). In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act , HITECH for short, became law, setting standards for electronic health records.

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Are Your Medical Records Safe? 95% of Patients Express Concern Over Breaches

Compliancy Group

With a staggering number of healthcare data breaches making headlines, it’s no wonder that patients are growing increasingly anxious about the safety of their sensitive health information. Patients have more confidence in government-approved health data exchange. Something is wrong with your submission.

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CMS Issues a New “Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes” Proposed Rule

C&M Health Law

The regulations impact CMS-regulated payers and provide incentives for providers and hospitals that participate in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The below summary does not focus on the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Fee for Service (FFS) proposals.

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3 Ways to Leverage RPA for Greater Value: Lessons from Healthcare

HIT Consultant

From ways to support smarter, more seamless discharge to remote check-ins with tonsillectomy patients, use cases for automation ramped up considerably during the pandemic. But health systems will struggle to gain value from innovations like ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI) without a foundation for automation.

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ONC Releases a Framework for Nationwide Health Information Exchange

C&M Health Law

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the entity chosen as a contracting partner, The Sequoia Project, Inc., published the long-awaited Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) for health information exchange.

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Minding the Gaps: 4 Traditionally Non-IT Roles Necessary for IT Success

HIT Consultant

As healthcare continues to digitally transform, integrating health data among various IT stakeholders demands much more collaboration than our predecessors could have imagined. Optimally, IT and privacy will work together to develop a robust plan that yields continuous safe, compliant outcomes, avoiding any problematic gaps.