Health Information Exchange

Technology Issues Plague VA’s Health Information Exchange

September 1, 2020 - The VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently uncovered various technology challenges associated with health information exchange in various VA facilities, which are preventing utilization. The OIG surveyed and interviewed the 48 lower-complexity, Levels 2 and 3 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities. Additionally, watch dog...

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Google Cloud to Advance Wipro Limited’s System, Data Processing

by Samantha McGrail

Google Cloud recently announced that it will now be the cloud provider for Wipro Limited’s enterprise-wide systems applications and products in data processing (SAP) footprint. The partnership...

US Dept of Energy Releases Plans for Quantum Internet Development

by Samantha McGrail

The University of Chicago and the US Department of Energy (DOE) recently unveiled a blueprint strategy for the development of a national quantum internet. A quantum internet is essentially a platform...

Data Interoperability and Exchange Recommendations During COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy released short-term steps to improve data interoperability and exchange as states prepare to re-open. The center convened multi-stakeholder working groups to...

KLAS Names Top Healthcare Technical Services of 2020

by Samantha McGrail

Galen Healthcare, 314e, Navin, Haffy & Associates (NHA), and J2 Interactive are some of the healthcare technical services firms that toppedthe charts in 2020, according to new KLAS...

pCare, Redox Partnership to Enhance Healthcare Data Integration

by Samantha McGrail

A new partnership between pCare and Redox will allow healthcare organizations to quickly and simply integrate pCare’s patient experience solution, assuring seamless healthcare data integration...

ECS Tapped to Modernize Health IT Infrastructure for Military

by Samantha McGrail

The Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Defense Health Information Technology Division recently awarded a four-year $116 million contract to ECS to lead health IT infrastructure modernization...

OSU’s Wexner Medical Center Pilots EMS-Hospital Health Data Exchange

by Fred Donovan

Ohio State University’s (OSU) Wexner Medical Center is piloting a project to increase health data exchange between hospitals and emergency medical services, the Columbus-Dispatch reported August...

HHS Issues Documents to Support Nationwide Health Data Exchange

by Fred Donovan

HHS has issued three documents for public comment that are designed to support network-to-network health data exchange nationwide. The three documents are second drafts of the Trusted Exchange...

Healthcare Interoperability Mess Created by Vendors’ Proprietary IT

by Fred Donovan

Vendors are developing and selling proprietary IT products and services that do not interoperate, creating a significant healthcare interoperability problem, testified LifePoint Health Chief Medical...

Gustave Roussy Institut, Embleema Team on Healthcare Blockchain

by Fred Donovan

Gustave Roussy Insitut, a Paris-based cancer center, has formed a partnership with Embleema, a New York-based healthcare blockchain network, to develop blockchain health data sharing applications for...

Texas To Deploy PULSE for Health Data Exchange in Emergencies

by Fred Donovan

Texas is looking to deploy the Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies (PULSE) platform, which was developed by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT to provide secure health...

BIDMC CIO Lays Out 3 Good Use Cases for Healthcare Blockchain

by Fred Donovan

CAMBRIDGE—Healthcare blockchain currently has three good use cases — physician credentialing, data integrity, and data sharing consent — observed Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...

Blockchain To Have Biggest Impact on Healthcare, Say 1/3rd of Investors

by Fred Donovan

One-third of institutional investors believe that blockchain technology will have the biggest impact on the healthcare industry, according to a survey by the Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)...

AMIA Backs NIH’s Plan to Revise Health Data Management Policy

by Fred Donovan

AMIA is supporting development of a new health data management and sharing policy for research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the group said in an Dec. 10 comment letter. The trade...

Healthcare Blockchain Is Poised to Transform Patient Care

by Fred Donovan

Healthcare blockchain technology has the potential to transform patient care, observed Bill Frist, a heart and lung transplant surgeon, former Senate majority leader, and chairman of the executive...

New Healthcare Blockchain Effort to Ease Credentialing Burden

by Fred Donovan

A new healthcare blockchain initiative has been launched to help ease the administrative burden of professional credentialing, a process that can require four to six months to complete. The...

Lack of Use-Cases Delay Healthcare Blockchain Implementation

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare blockchain is growing, but with the technology being so new, organizations should be aware of what obstacles may hinder blockchain adoption before adding the technology to their health IT...

Healthcare Blockchain Standards Support Collaborative Development

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

Healthcare blockchain is gaining traction as health IT vendors and provider organizations look to the technology to decentralize data exchange to provide improved data protection. Understanding the...

ISA’s Annual Review Period Promotes Interoperability Advancements

by Elizabeth O'Dowd

The Interoperability Standards Advisory’s (ISA) annual comment and review period comes to a close at 5 pm, ET, on October 1. The process began to help determine how the National Coordinator for...

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