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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...
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...
The Sequoia Project Celebrates Five Years with Significant Growth in Enabling Seamless, Nationwide Health Data Exchange
Growth Marked by Increases in Participation, Number of Health Records Exchanged and Connectivity Expansion in All 50 States Vienna, VA – April 26, 2017 – The Sequoia Project, the leading independent advocate for nationwide health data sharing, celebrates its fifth...
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, 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...
More Government and Industry Health IT Experts Join The Sequoia Project’s Board of Directors
Health IT Experts Provide Strategic Leadership and Expanded Opportunities for Cross-Collaboration of Interoperability Initiatives Vienna, VA – February 6, 2017 – The Sequoia Project, the leading independent advocate for nationwide health data sharing, announced today...
Healthcare’s Latest Interoperability Push
Recent collaboration among big-name EHR vendors signals a new push towards greater health information exchange, although barriers in the market still remain Across the healthcare ecosystem, it’s hardly a secret that providers struggle to get pertinent medical...
Collaboration Aims To Boost Data Exchange, Improve Interoperability
Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance have collaborated to boost data exchange and improve interoperability among providers. As part of the partnership, CommonWell will implement Carequality’s interoperability framework, allowing its members and clients to share...
Impact of eHealth Exchange on Nationwide Interoperability
The eHealth Exchange functions at a national level to connect existing health information networks and healthcare organizations to improve the secure and information flow of patient data. Leveraging existing health IT infrastructure is an integral element of the...
Carequality, CommonWell to Join Forces to Increase Interoperability
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality, two of the leaders in advancing data exchange, have agreed to connect their networks. Under the agreement, CommonWell will become a Carequality implementer on behalf of its members and their clients, enabling CommonWell...
Value of Carequality-CommonWell Interoperability Agreement
The health data exchange agreement between The Sequoia Project’s Carequality and vendor-driven CommonWell Health Alliance warrants a second look, according to the President & CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. In a guest contribution to Life as a...
More Health Orgs Using Surescripts Health Data Exchange Service
Surescripts National Record Locator Services improves health data exchange for 8 more leading health care organizations. In a crucial step toward nationwide interoperability, eight leading healthcare organizations went live with Surescripts National Record Locator...
Cedars-Sinai, Sutter Health, NorthShore, others sign on with Surescripts record locator service
In an expansion that now covers 140 million patients and more than 2 billion patient visits, Surescripts says providers in eight health systems are the most recent to go live with its National Record Locator Service. The NRLS, which operates under the Carequality...
Two Networks Pledge to Work Toward Interoperability
Sometime before mid-2017, one of the greatest divides in health IT today will start to be bridged. Communities supporting two of the leading HIT data exchange networks, managed by CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality, will begin participating in pilot programs...
7 (plus 1) Predictions for Healthcare IT in 2017
Last year, I had made five predictions for healthcare information technology in 2016. In this, my final post of 2016, I will be reviewing how my predictions turned out, and update the outlook for 2017. As I write this, President Obama has just signed into law the 21st...
Cerner’s Burke: Massive new EHR collaboration ‘a big deal’ for clients
Collaboration between two health care IT nonprofits will pave the way for easier information exchange between records systems. The CommonWell Health Alliance, a trade entity of health IT companies that offers tools for interoperability, will partner with Carequality,...
CommonWell, Carequality Combine EHR Interoperability Efforts
The ability of disparate electronic health records (EHRs) to exchange patient information — known as interoperability — took an important step forward on Wednesday with the announcement that CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality, the leading private-sector...
Connectivity and Collaboration to Advance Interoperability Agreement
CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell) and Carequality (@CarequalityNet) announced an agreement to increase health IT connectivity nationwide. The agreement provides additional health data sharing options to a broad range of stakeholders across healthcare, and has...
Sequoia Project forming Patient Identity Matching Workgroup
The Sequoia Project, which operates eHealth Exchange, a national health information network, is calling on industry stakeholders along with policy and technical experts to join a new workgroup to find ways to improve and better standardize patient identity matching...