by Jamie Janvier | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Care Coordination, Healthcare IT, Interoperability, Policy
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...
by Jamie Janvier | Jan 13, 2022 | Blog, Care Coordination, Clinical Outcomes, Encounter Notification Service, Healthcare IT, Interoperability
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,...
by Jamie Janvier | Dec 8, 2021 | Blog, Care Coordination, Clinical Outcomes, Encounter Notification Service, Interoperability
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...
by Jamie Janvier | Nov 12, 2021 | Blog, Care Coordination, Clinical Outcomes, Health Equity, Social Determinants of Health
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...
by Jamie Janvier | Nov 5, 2021 | Blog, Care Coordination, Encounter Notification Service, Healthcare IT, Interoperability
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...
by Jamie Janvier | Oct 29, 2021 | Blog, Care Coordination, Encounter Notification Service, Healthcare IT, Interoperability
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...
