To Advance Health IT Interoperability and Improve Patient-Centered Care, Complementing CMS and ONC Proposed Rules The Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC) (@HealthInFocus) and Bipartisan Policy Center (@BPC_Bipartisan) are releasing a new report that recommends public and private sector actions that will advance health information technology (IT) interoperability, giving providers easier access to patients’ clinical data and empowering individuals with increased access…

By Don Rucker M.D./ National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Twitter: @ONC_HealthIT I am pleased to announce the release of ONC’s proposed rule to implement provisions in Title IV of the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act). We also released a series of educational resources that focus on areas of the rule—including patient access, information blocking, the new conditions of certification, and…

The alphabet soup of acronyms in the world Artificial Intelligence. What are they? What do they mean? What is the difference between them? This is our ongoing reporting on AI and how it is being integrated into healthcare technology. We are seeking out the thought leaders and innovations that are moving the needle forward using artificial intelligence. Read more posts…

By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka Recently I had the honor of keynoting at a major announcement from Apple, Aetna and CVS/Caremark. I'd summarize the message as "Digital Health has arrived and is now mainstream, fully embraced by the major stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem." Here's the upshot. The history of healthcare and payment has been risk pool based and…

Newest eMedicare Tool Provides Valuable Information to Mobile Users The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) (@CMSGov) launched a new app that gives consumers a modernized Medicare experience with direct access on a mobile device to some of the most-used content on Medicare.gov. The new “What’s Covered” app lets people with Original Medicare, caregivers and others quickly see whether…

By Robert Kowalik, Practice Director Healthcare at Bluvision, part of HID Global Twitter: @HIDGlobal At HIMSS19: Visit Bluvision/HID Global in Booth #4873 in Orlando, FL Hospitals face countless logistics, compliance, and safety hurdles every day. Expensive equipment goes missing or maintenance schedules delayed in searching for assets. Patients and visitors get lost trying to navigate a hospital’s corridors. Security personnel scramble…

By James Daniel and Jacob Ashendorf, HHS Office of the Chief Technology Officer Twitter: @HHSIDEALab We all want the best for our family’s healthcare. Sometimes that means driving across state borders to access better medical care. Since many public health immunization information systems (IIS) are structured by jurisdiction, records inevitably contain data gaps. To bridge that divide, more robust data exchange…

By Luis Castillo, President & CEO, Ensocare Twitter: @EnsocareCircle We’re awash in data. It’s on our phones, it’s saved on our computers, our networks. It’s in the cloud. In a relatively short period of time, we’ve gone from an analog world where data was exceedingly rare to an era where there’s literally more data available than humans could possibly process. There’s not much…

By David Harlow, JD MPH, Principal, The Harlow Group LLC Twitter: @healthblawg Host: Harlow on Healthcare Hashtag: #HarlowOnHC Now on demand, I recently spoke with Dara Richardson-Heron M.D., chief engagement officer of the All of Us Research Program (@AllofUsResearch) at the National Institutes of Health. Dara is leading efforts to engage a million volunteers or more from diverse communities across the country in building one…