HIE News Round Up: CMS Enforcement and Payer-To-Payer Data Exchange; SDOH and EHR Integrations; and Interop Hurdles
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 Won't Take Enforcement Action for Payer-To-Payer Data Exchange in Interoperability Rule
CMS has announced that it will not take enforcement action against certain payers for the payer-to-payer data exchange provision of the May 2020 Interoperability and Patient Access final rule until future rulemaking is finalized.
Clinical Research Requires EHR Optimization, Data Interoperability
EHR optimization to support data interoperability could improve the value of pragmatic clinical research, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Health Choice Network Adopts Epic EHR to Improve Data Access
Health Choice Network (HCN) has announced a partnership with EHR vendor Epic to improve data access and expand health information portfolios for its network of health centers.
Using EHR Integrations to Understand Social Determinants of Health
Lawrence General Hospital in Lawrence, Massachusetts has leveraged a MEDITECH EHR integration to boost social determinants of health (SDOH) data analytics and track health outcomes.
Using Machine Learning to Extract SDOH Data, EHR Clinical Notes
Machine learning offers significant potential to extract social determinant of health (SDOH) data from EHR clinical notes, which may aid in the development of clinical decision support systems, according to a study published in JAMIA.
8 Healthcare Leaders on the Biggest Hurdles to Full Interoperability
Today's healthcare landscape in the U.S. is awash in patient data, but organizations are often unable to use that data to its fullest potential, because much of it remains locked within disparate systems. Here are the biggest hurdles to interoperability in the U.S., according to eight healthcare leaders.
Maintaining Health Information Exchange Competitiveness in a New Health Care Market
The Brookings Institute recently published this deep-dive article about how HIEs must diversify network members and data types to stay relevant.
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