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Health Data Taking a LEAP: Transposing the Apps Model for Individual Health Records to Population Health
Tracy Okubo | December 18, 2020
Because of advances in interoperability, it’s becoming increasingly common for people and their healthcare providers to access and share information from electronic health records (EHRs) using apps. Could this same approach allow large-scale data sharing between healthcare provider organizations, payors (Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers), or public health officials? An app providing shared insights into a common dataset could transform the way value-based care is delivered and measured.
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Usability Showing the Way to Useful Health IT through Human Factors and Ergonomics
Teresa Zayas Cabán | December 17, 2020
For health IT to benefit health and healthcare, it must be useable by – and useful to – patients and clinicians. This is precisely where the discipline of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) serves as an essential foundation for the development, implementation, and use of high-quality health information systems and practices. HFE improves overall performance through study of interactions among humans and other elements of a system.
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21st Century Cures Act, Information Blocking Pssst…Information blocking practices, your days are numbered…Pass it on.
Steven Posnack | December 16, 2020
Passed four years ago, the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) included a definition of “information blocking.” On behalf of the HHS Secretary, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was tasked with implementing this definition and its “exceptions.” The new regulation (also a “law”) published in the Federal Register this past May by ONC identified three types of participants in health care that are covered under information blocking: 1) health care providers,
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21st Century Cures Act, Information Blocking To share or not to share, what’s an exception (to information blocking)?
Steven Posnack | December 16, 2020
In a companion blog post I covered some foundational points about the 21st Century Cures Act’s (Cures Act) information blocking law and the regulation ONC issued to implement the law.
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Interoperability With 2021 fast approaching, there’s more in store for APIs in healthcare
Steven Posnack | December 14, 2020
Our recent virtual event, Accelerating APIs in Healthcare: A Year in Review and Momentum for 2021, featured more than 1,000 viewers and 40 speakers with one clear, consistent message: big things will come in 2021. The full recording is now available on our website.
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