January 16, 2017 - The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released for public comment a new draft white paper developed by Accenture Federal Services focused on the opportunities and challenges of realizing the potential of patient-generated health data. Of particular importance to healthcare organizations and providers is a series of enabling actions the federal policy...

January 9, 2017 - Among five health IT trends to watch for in 2017, DirectTrust CEO & President David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA anticipates progress in health IT interoperability and added attention being paid to emergent health technologies such as health IT standards despite uncertainty surrounding healthcare regulation. “One has to begin any set of predictions about health care and health IT during 2017...

January 5, 2017 - New partnerships between health plan organizations and health data exchanges are paving the way for nationwide interoperability with some networks beginning that work at a more local level. In Los Angeles County, health plan LA Care Health Plan worked with Safety Net Connect to connect 21 hospitals to its health information exchange following a successful pilot. The hospitals now have access...

December 28, 2016 - The health data exchange agreement between The Sequoia Project’s Carequality and vendor-driven CommonWell Health Alliance warrants a second look, according to the President & CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. In a guest contribution to Life as a Healthcare CIO, Micky Tripathi put into the Carequality-CommonWell interoperability agreement in context, particularly in...