ONC Awards The Sequoia Project a Cooperative Agreement for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement to Support Advancing Nationwide Interoperability of Electronic Health Information
Read the press release on HHS.gov The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced that The Sequoia Project has been awarded a cooperative agreement to serve as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE). The RCE will be responsible for developing, updating, implementing, and maintaining the Common Agreement component of the Trusted […]
The National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. Don Rucker, to Keynote The Sequoia Project’s Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting to be held October 25 at the Gaylord National Harbor, Maryland Vienna, VA – September 20, 2018 – The Sequoia Project today announced its annual meeting will be held on October 25, 2018 at the Gaylord Hotel right outside of Washington, D.C. in National Harbor, Maryland. The event will be headlined by Dr. Don Rucker, […]
More than Half of All Healthcare Providers in the U.S. are Connected Electronically through the Carequality Interoperability Framework
Healthcare organizations are exchanging more than 1.7 million clinical documents per month through Carequality (Vienna, VA – December 5, 2017) – During The Sequoia Project’s Annual Meeting taking place this week, one of its key initiatives, Carequality, reported tremendous growth since it became operational in July of 2016. To date, more than 1,000 hospitals, 25,000 […]
GE Healthcare Receives Carequality Certification, Advancing Data Exchange with Cloud Technology
GE Healthcare today announced that it has received Carequality certification to enable seamless data sharing by its ambulatory EHR customers with thousands of hospitals, physician practices, payer networks, vendors and consumer services nationally. Already a KLAS top performer for interoperability impact on patient care, GE Healthcare built upon its existing expertise in providing digital tools […]
Improving Provider Satisfaction in the Post-HITECH Era
A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine examined the impact of the HITECH Act on EHR adoption and advised policymakers on ways to improve provider satisfaction and health IT innovation in the post-HITECH era. Co-authors Beth Israel Deaconess CIO John Halamka, MD and Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative CEO Mickey Tripathi, PhD acknowledged that HITECH is […]
Price at Health Datapalooza: ‘Rules of the road’ are needed for ‘true interoperability’
This was Price’s health IT first speech after being confirmed as the HHS Secretary and he has a lot to say about the hurdles in the digital health space, including the challenges the industry has been facing with data entry. Achieving true interoperability is no easy task. But the Obama administration made some progress with […]
Sequoia Project, DirectTrust tout Interoperability Surge
Two major interoperability groups, Sequoia Project and DirectTrust, are exchanging more health records and connecting more provider sites than ever, the companies announced this week. The Sequoia Project – whose members include Carequality, eHealth Exchange, and RSNA Image Share Validation – marked its fifth anniversary by touting across-the-board growth: The number of health organizations participating […]
Document exchange firm Kno2 partners with ImageTrend
Kno2, a company that optimizes patient document exchange, has partnered with ImageTrend, a developer of software solutions, data analytics and services for emergency medical services (EMS), hospitals, community paramedicing (CP), critical care, fire and preparedness. ImageTrend will integrate Kno2’s interoperability platform with ImageTrend Elite and Health Information Hub (HIH) to expand choices for achieving rapid, […]
ImageTrend, Kno2 launch secure document exchange tool for EMS
Kno2 and ImageTrend announced a partnership to enable emergency medical services and paramedic teams to more quickly and securely send, receive and query for electronic patient information, the companies said Tuesday.
Industry groups press Congress to back private-sector patient matching solutions
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should provide technical assistance to private-sector led initiatives that promote patient safety by accurately identifying patients and matching them to their health information, 25 industry groups have informed members of Congress.
