HIE News Round Up: COVID-19 and Boosting Interoperability; DirectTrust Update; and EHR Patient Portals

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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.

3 Ways to Boost Interoperability to Aid COVID-19 Containment

Health IT professionals say containing the COVID-19 outbreak can be done by getting federal, state, and local lawmakers on the same page, according to this recent EHR Intelligence article.

COVID-19 Prompts Drop in DirectTrust Secure Direct Messages in Q1

DirectTrust announced the exchange of 142 million secure direct messages in the first quarter of 2020, a decrease of about 13 percent from the same time period last year.

Data Interoperability and Exchange Recommendations During COVID-19

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy released short-term steps to improve data interoperability and exchange as states prepare to re-open. 

Congress Must Tackle Patient Matching Amid COVID-19, Says Pew Charitable Trusts

According to Pew Charitable Trusts, persistent flaws in the ability to accurately ID and match patient records are hindering two must-haves on the road to reopening: contact tracing and, eventually, vaccine administration.

EHR Patient Portals Trigger Patient Data Change Requests

Patient portal implementation, patient EHR access, and the transparency allowed under HIPAA and privacy laws increase patient empowerment when it comes to patient data access, according to the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA). 

HHS Therapeutic Learning System Crowd Sources COVID-19 Data

The new therapeutic learning system collects crowd-sourced COVID-19 data from doctors and other clinicians to uncover how patients are responding to promising coronavirus treatments.

Cerner, Allscripts Tops in Black Book Customer Satisfaction Survey

Cerner has been named the top EHR vendor for client satisfaction across large hospitals and health systems with over 250 beds, according to a Black Book survey.


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