CHICAGO – Interoperability is frequently touted as a means of ensuring the exchange of important health information between healthcare entities, but it turns out that achieving this long sought-after goal may also be a means of advancing health equity, which has been an ongoing focus of the current administration.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced the 2024 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Final Rule that limits non-standardized plans in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces.
The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) is now live, and exchange partners are signing up. Hot on its heels come rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to prevent information blocking as required by the 21st Century Cures Act. According to a panel at the interoperability forum at the […]
CHICAGO – The Philips Future Health Index 2023 global report released here at HIMSS23 today shows healthcare leaders are focused on addressing staffing shortages and stepping up planned AI investments. The investments are to increase critical decision support and operational efficiency that will also help tackle staffing shortages.
CVS Health has appointed Brian Kane to the post of executive vice president and president of Aetna, effective September 1. become a member of the company’s executive leadership team and report to CVS Health President and CEO Karen S. Lynch. “Brian has a track record of bringing customer-driven innovations to the market and delivering strong […]
CHICAGO – Interoperability is about more than just having standards. Being able to exchange electronic health information between entities and individuals is all well and good, but the data needs to be modern and usable. Indeed, “data modernization” is a buzz phrase in the world of healthcare technology, but what does the term actually mean?
CHICAGO – As much as 95% of hospital data goes unused, according to healthcare IT experts. Eighty percent of data is in unstructured text, said John Halamaka, president of Mayo Clinic Platform, speaking with other IT experts at the HIMSS23 Executive Summit session, “Putting Data to Work for Innovation in Healthcare.”
CHICAGO – To kick-off the HIMSS23 Executive Summit on Monday morning, HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf told a ballroom of C-suite leaders that healthcare is no longer happening inside the four walls of a hospital.
CHICAGO – Federal and state governments have made a number of investments in health information exchange (HIE) and interoperability infrastructure, exemplified by the ONC State HIE Cooperative Agreement and Medicaid HITECH 90/10 Federal Financial Participation. But many states have kept developing and remodeling their data governance and exchange services.
The technology uses the smart TV in an in-patient setting as a hub to deliver relevant, integrated clinical information, says Rebecca Stametz, VP of digital transformation at Geisinger’s Steele Institute for Health Innovation.