PointClickCare Technologies Announces Intent to Acquire Audacious Inquiry

by Jamie Janvier | Feb 1, 2022 | Care Coordination, Interoperability, Press Release

Leading care collaboration network and post‐acute health information platform combines with Audacious Inquiry to further expand network and capabilities in mission to improve patient outcomes MISSISSAUGA, ON. – February 1, 2022 – PointClickCare Technologies, a leading...

TEFCA Go-Live: Everything You Need to Know as ONC Prepares for a New Era of Health Information Exchange

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...

Unified Specification for Address in Health Care: The New Standard and Why It’s Important for Patient Matching

by dbauza4gmailcom | Jan 18, 2022 | Blog, Healthcare IT, Interoperability, Policy

Ushering in a new era of data standardization across Health IT, Project US@ (“Project USA”) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0 was released on January 7, 2022. This project has been a year-long effort to bring standardization to patient address information...

Health Information Exchange (HIE) Guide for Public Health Programs

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,...

Health IT’s Role in Combatting the Opioid Overdose Epidemic

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...

TEFCA, Information Blocking, and More: 7 Important Policy Updates to Know for Healthcare IT in 2022

by Jamie Janvier | Nov 23, 2021 | Blog, Healthcare IT, Interoperability, Policy

It has been an active year so far in the health IT policy world. Implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act has continued at a steady clip and many policy developments have helped advance efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, momentum will continue...