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.  

HHS Proposed Rule Seeks to Align Health IT Investments

A proposed rule from HHS would require healthcare entities that contract with the agency to use government-certified health IT. The proposed rule aims to advance the department's Health IT Alignment Policy.

Why TEFCA’s Facilitated FHIR Will Succeed

Recently announced interoperability changes to TEFCA may enable FHIR API transactions to be supported by the same sort of trust in identity framework that underlies the DirectTrust network, as highlighted in this recent Health Data Management article by Scott Stuewe, President and CEO of DirectTrust.

New Survey Sheds Light on How Physicians Experience Interoperability

A new survey from the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ASTP), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) found that physicians face documentation burdens and workflow disruptions when it comes to achieving interoperability.

 Top Considerations When Selecting an EHR Vendor

EHR Intelligence recently published this article about what care organizations should do when selecting an EHR vendor, and one consideration is making sure the vendor has health information exchange integrations.

Interoperability: The First Pillar of Payer Data Priorities

Thanks to TEFCA, health payers will be better positioned to leverage and share clinical data, according to this recent Health Data Management article about payers bringing health data interoperability more to life.

To Advance Health Equity, We Must Stop Shaming Fax

While there are many healthcare players that don’t have a choice but to use fax, this MedCity guest article highlights how we need to move away from care organizations that still use this technology to share patient information.

New Venture Firm Launches With $21M to Invest in Digital Health

Create Health Ventures, which will focus on investing in payer- and pharma-facing early-stage digital health companies with founders with experience in the healthcare industry, announced its launch after closing its first fund of $21 million.

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