Welcome to the Health Information Technology 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 HIT and health information exchange.

ONC Reports on Progress on Advancing Nationwide, Trusted Health Information Networks

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has provided an update to Congress on the progress that has been made on the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information through trusted health information networks (HINs) and health information exchanges (HIEs).

Chairs Rodgers and Guthrie Announce Subcommittee Hearing on Supporting Patients Access to Telehealth

Last week, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced a subcommittee hearing titled “Legislative Proposals to Support Patient Access to Telehealth Services.”

How Regenstrief and HL7 Are Driving SDOH Data Standards

The Regenstrief Foundation has committed $4.4 million toward an expanded partnership with the HL7 Gravity Project to create SDOH data standards, according to this recent EHR Intelligence article.

The Reluctant Revolution: Encouraging Interoperability Adoption in Healthcare

The lack of adoption of interoperability tools by providers is a significant issue that hinders the smooth exchange of patient data between different health systems, according to this recent MedCity News article.

TEFCA: With Greater Simplification Comes Greater Cybersecurity Responsibility

Now that participation among multiple QHINs is allowed under TEFCA, The Sequoia Project addresses how cybersecurity requirements apply to all entities exchanging protected health data, in this recent Healthcare IT News article. 

Telehealth Groups Urge DEA to Release Virtual E-Prescribing Rules

With current pandemic-era flexibilities for telemedicine set to expire at the end of 2024, several telehealth groups and major health systems are calling on the DEA to work faster in crafting a new proposed rule regulating the prescribing of controlled substances via telehealth.

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