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 Offers Relief for Promoting Interoperability Program, MIPS

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, CMS announced relief and an extension of data submission deadlines for providers, facilities, and clinicians participating in Medicare quality reporting programs and the Quality Payment Program.

Using EHR Optimization to Address, Limit Coronavirus Outbreak

Healthcare leaders are looking to EHR optimization to help manage the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine. 

KeyHIE is Progressing Toward a Statewide Patient Data Hub

KeyHIE, one of the oldest and largest HIEs in the country, is serving as a comprehensive data hub, which includes immunization, the lab registry, surveillance, the prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP), cancer registry, and quality measures.

Coronavirus Pushes FL HIE to Advance Statewide Interoperability

HIE Networks, a Florida health information exchange (HIE), is deploying a new system that would allow health systems to access patient records throughout the state of Florida.

3 Key Pieces to the Interoperability Puzzle: #2 Directed Exchange

The ability to send important health information to other providers is essential to effective care coordination, and directed exchange provides the means to do so securely and efficiently, according to this recent EHR Intelligence article.

Better Data Sharing Between Payers, Providers Can Move the Needle on SDOH

More robust SDOH data is not only a care quality consideration, but also a business consideration as payers and providers seek a whole-person view, according to this recent Healthcare Finance article.

IMAT Solutions Offering Real-Time Data Reporting and Analytics in Response to COVID-19

This week, IMAT Solutions announced that it is enabling real-time health data reporting and analytics for its customers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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