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Health IT WowzaPalooza – A Post-Health Datapalooza 2023 Health IT Roundup
Steven Posnack | March 9, 2023
In case you missed it, Health Datapalooza happened toward the end of February. The aptly named conference always invokes a bit of fun while at the same time being a high octane mix of data scientists, policy makers, health care leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and patient advocates.
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Health Data Use of Telemedicine among Physicians and Development of Telemedicine Apps
Yuriy Pylypchuk | March 9, 2023
In 2020, as the U.S. health care system faced the unprecedented challenge of combating the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine emerged as an invaluable care delivery tool; both providers and patients heavily relied on it for providing and receiving care. Through an analysis of National Electronic Health Record Survey (NEHRS) 2021 data and from in-house data collected from electronic health record (EHR) developers’ app galleries, we have an opportunity to inform the public about physicians’ experiences with telemedicine during the pandemic.
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Health IT Policy A Turning Point in Electronic Health Information Progress
Seth Pazinski | March 6, 2023
A new ONC report to Congress updating progress on the access, exchange, and use of electronic health information (EHI) is now available.
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Health Equity, Health IT FHIRed-SHIP: An approach to Health Equity by Design for 21st Century Healthcare
Jawanna Henry | March 2, 2023
Complete and accurate information on a patient’s social determinants of health (SDOH), including specific needs related to food, housing, and transportation insecurity, can help their clinicians and social services providers take a more holistic approach to an individual’s health and well-being. In order to meet demand for an extensive number of SDOH use cases, the healthcare ecosystem is working intensely to mature SDOH data exchange standards. In parallel, it is important for continued investment in the use of these standards to test them out and to develop innovative methods that can enhance the comprehensiveness of health IT systems and improve care referrals and bi-directional exchange across organizations.
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Health IT Policy New CMS Rules Advancing Interoperability
Alex Baker | February 27, 2023
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed two important new rules in December 2022 which, if finalized, would advance electronic health information exchange and streamline cumbersome health care processes by establishing standardized requirements across the industry. These rules reflect the deep collaboration between CMS and ONC to ensure that providers and payers adopt common, open-industry standards to advance interoperability and industry innovation.
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