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.

Health IT Vendors Announce Interoperability Advancements at HIMSS22

Health IT vendors such as MEDITECH and Philips announced new interoperability solutions at HIMSS 2022 last week.

'The Promise it Really Brings': Talking TEFCA with Sequoia Project CEO Mariann Yeager

Healthcare Dive caught up with ONC's main partner in creating a nationwide framework for data exchange at HIMSS 2022 last week.

Inside the Collaboration to Expand Public Health Data Interoperability

Amid data challenges, CDC and ONC are working to modernize and drive interoperability, as highlighted last week at HIMSS 2022.

FHIR May Be The Future of Healthcare Data, But Payers Want More

FHIR describes data formats and an API for exchanging electronic health records, and while many in the data business consider it the future of healthcare, payers say they need something more. 

DirectTrust Launches Consensus Body, Patient Matching Data Standard

DirectTrust has launched an initiative to develop a new data standard to support a voluntary nationwide patient matching ecosystem, called the Privacy-Enhancing Health Record Locator Service (PEHRLS) Ecosystem Consensus Body.

Data Interoperability Efforts Take Shape at VA

The Department of Veterans Affairs is advancing data interoperability to fuel new dashboards and reach underrepresented populations, said VA Product Line Manager Niriksha Patel said at the HIMSS conference.

Surescripts Report Reveals 2021 Health IT Interoperability Gains

Healthcare interoperability is gaining momentum, according to the Surescripts 2021 National Progress Report, which revealed significant increases in the use of clinical direct messaging and ePrescribing health IT.

Standardized APIs Could Finally Make It Easy to Exchange Health Records

Harvard Business Review recently provided this deep-dive perspective into how APIs could finally pave the way for effective health data exchange.

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