Interoperability Getting Real about Information Blocking and APIs
Micky Tripathi | October 8, 2024
Our country has made tremendous strides and invested billions of private and public dollars in establishing the digital future of the health care system. We are thus highly concerned about ongoing and recent reports that we have received about potential violations of both the letter and spirit of the various laws and regulations now in place to ensure information-sharing to improve our health care system and enhance the lives of all Americans. In this blog post we describe some of the issues that have been brought to our attention and the steps that we are taking to address them.
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Blog Series: Star HIE Program Increase in Exchange of Vaccination Data in Nebraska, Powered by the STAR HIE Program
LaVerne Perlie | October 2, 2024
ASTP launched the Strengthening the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health via Health Information Exchange (STAR HIE Program) in 2020. The program expanded in 2021 to increase support for efforts to improve vaccination data sharing between jurisdictional immunization information systems (IIS) and HIEs. CyncHealth in Omaha, Nebraska, was among the 22 recipients that received a combined $5 million in funds from ASTP via the CARES Act.
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Health IT Setting Our Sights Toward a Healthier, More Innovative, Data-Driven Future
Dustin Charles | September 30, 2024
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (hereafter ASTP), has released the final 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (Plan).
The Plan is a tremendous step forward in the federal government’s continued focus on health IT and the opportunities it presents to improve care delivery and care coordination. The Plan builds on the preceding 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan to advance the access,
Health IT The Global Digital Health Partnership: Engaging Individuals for Worldwide Wellness
Elise Sweeney Anthony | September 27, 2024
In the dynamic landscape of global health, one principle stands out as a common thread across countries: the importance of individual engagement. Increasingly recognized for its transformative impact on individual health outcomes, individual engagement is a concept that lies at the heart of initiatives spearheaded by the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP), including the recently launched International Insights on Individual Engagement (the I-E). As a collaboration of country governments and the World Health Organization formed to support the executive implementation of worldwide digital health services,
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Standards Introducing the 2024 Draft Federal FHIR® Action Plan
Avinash Shanbhag | September 23, 2024
ASTP released the 2024 Draft Federal FHIR® Action Plan, a curated catalog of federal agency uses of the Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources® (FHIR®) standard and associated implementation specifications. Federal agencies are adopting and using FHIR to meet a range of agency needs, including facilitating care coordination and expanding individuals access to their health information. The draft action plan serves as a single resource for federal agencies and anyone else in the health IT community looking for the FHIR-based capabilities being used today by the federal government.
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