Welcome to the Health Information Exchange Weekly News Round Up from RosettaHealth. Each week, we will provide you with a summary of all the actionable news that hospitals, HIT vendors, ACOs, and population health providers need to be smart and effective when it comes to health information exchange.

CMS Proposed Rule Aims to Streamline Prior Authorizations and Make Data Sharing Easier

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a new rule that seeks to streamline prior authorizations to lighten clinician workload and allow them more time to see patients. 

Tracking Health Information Exchange Gains with eHealth Exchange

Exchange has exchanged over 250 million more patient documents per year following its gateway technology integration, according to this recent EHR Intelligence article.

How a Smart EHR System Can Boost Health IT, Add Real World Events

A Smart EHR system would alert patients about real world health events that could negatively impact an individual’s health, according to a new study.

Making Data Sharing a Condition in Value-Based Contracts

Data sharing is critical to delivering value, and one care provider is ensuring that it is a condition when negotiating value-based contracts with payers.

Epic Systems Hits Record 221M Patient Data Exchanges in October

Epic Systems has announced that it facilitated over 221 million patient data exchanges through its Care Everywhere platform in October, a roughly 40 percent increase from the same time last year.

The State of Interoperability Today

New interoperability rules hold promise in making it easier for patients to access and share their health data -- but there's still a long way to go on the road to interoperability – according to this recent MedCity News article.

5 Steps for Interoperability Excellence for Healthcare Providers

Here are five critical non-technology factors to consider for healthcare providers when developing interoperability plans in 2021, according to HIT Consultant.

Nicolette, Inc. Launches Patient Empowerment Technology for NICU Parents

Nicolette, Inc. has launched NicoBoard, its bedside empowerment technology for parents with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and CHOC Children's, a pediatric healthcare system in Orange County, California, is the first organization to implement the technology.

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