On January 18th, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Recognized Coordinating Entity, the Sequoia Project (“RCE”), pushed TEFCA forward in a major way with the release of the initial Common Agreement, QHIN...
Health information exchange (HIE) plays a critical role in the drive towards interoperability in healthcare. HIE evolved as a solution to data silos that emerged among hospital and health systems and the variety of electronic health record software they implemented,...
While the COVID-19 pandemic has been at the forefront of medical and public concern for the past year and a half, the opioid overdose epidemic has continued to quietly take its toll in the United States. In the twelve months leading up to April 2021, over 100,000...
Over the past 20 years, maternal mortality rates have continued to rise in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that in 2019 the maternal mortality rate had risen to 20 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to 17 deaths...
Reducing hospital readmissions has been a major goal in healthcare for the past decade. In 2012, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) included a provision called the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program to incentivize hospitals to reduce readmissions. A readmission or...
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that existing public health tracking systems needed more insight into the healthcare system to effectively track the transmission of the virus. Experts weighed in on how to best support this cross-sector data...
Patient-centered care has been a trending topic in healthcare for the past decade. While patient-centered care sounds self-explanatory—shifting focus to the patient and their needs in a healthcare setting—there is more to it than that. Patient-centered care at its...
