HIE News Round Up: Biden and Information Blocking; CommonWell Hosts a Connectathon; and AI in Healthcare
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.
Biden 2023 Budget Proposes Advisory Opinions for Information Blocking
In the 2023 budget proposal, the Biden-Harris Administration has requested that Congress provide HHS with the authority to issue a binding advisory opinion for information blocking regulations, ONC explained in a recent HealthITBuzz blog post.
CommonWell Hosts Connectathon to Test FHIR Discrete Data Exchange
CommonWell Health Alliance hosted a connectathon with 11 of its members to test its Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) services as it works to develop the next generation of FHIR for discrete data exchange.
DirectTrust Gains ANSI Approval for ADT Event Notifications Data Standard
DirectTrust announced that the Event Notifications via the Direct Standard has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a national data standard.
Montana Governor Announces $20M Investment in State HIE
Governor Greg Gianforte has announced a $20 million investment in Montana’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), Big Sky Care Connect (BSCC). Part of the investment will go towards developing a clinical data repository to improve provider data access for better care coordination.
CHIME, WEDI Launch Patient Education Campaign on Health Data Sharing
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) have launched the “THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK” campaign to enhance patient education about health data sharing.
CMS Needs Better Medicaid Data Quality to Support Health Equity
Poor data quality is limiting the ability of CMS to measure health equity in the Medicaid program, according to a HealthAffairs article.
Value-Based Care Creating a New Era of Interoperability
The switch to value, along with legislative and technological advances, is modernizing interoperability for payers and providers, according to this recent Healthcare Finance article.
Stakeholders Urge White House’s AI Office to Include Healthcare
In a letter to the chair and vice-chair of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO), healthcare and technology stakeholders asked that healthcare be included in the scope of its work to advance US artificial intelligence (AI) by adding a healthcare subcommittee to the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC).
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