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.

Increased Health IT Clinician Burden Calls for Greater Interoperability

While almost half of pharmacists and two-thirds of prescribers reported an increase in health IT use over the past 18 months, further interoperability efforts are needed to address clinician burden, according to a new Surescripts survey.

HIEs Advance Interoperability for Improved Care Coordination, Data Analytics

Health information exchanges (HIEs) advance interoperability and provide clinicians with greater access to patient health data for care coordination, according to an op-ed published in the Journal of AHIMA.

ONC Awards Funding to SDOH Data Exchange, Interoperability Projects

The ONC has announced the 2021 Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT awardees for their interoperability projects that aim to enhance social determinants of health (SDOH) data exchange and promote EHR optimization for clinical research capabilities.

COVID-19 Boosts Health IT Adoption, Knowledge of Interoperability Rules

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated health IT adoption and physician understanding of new interoperability rules, according to results from a survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Google Cloud.

Fall 2021 Changes to NHSN COVID-19 Vaccination Reporting

The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) has announced changes that will be coming to NHSN in the fall of 2021, regarding the reporting of COVID-19 vaccinations by nursing facilities.

Interoperability, HL7 FHIR Testing Sandbox Offers Place to Explore

At the 2021 Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) HL7 FHIR Connectathon, healthcare stakeholders convened to test HL7 FHIR Implementation Guides and Reference Implementations to understand how they can tackle current health interoperability challenges.

COVID-19 Offers Lessons for a Better Public Health Data Infrastructure

Experts with the health information technology project at the Pew Charitable Trusts shared insights on the state of pandemic-era health data exchange at HIMSS21.

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