It Looks Like Health Information Exchange Can Be Done Well With A Proper Interoperability Framework Like That Provided By ONC in the US.

This appeared last week:ONC releases its Trusted Exchange Framework establishing a single ‘on ramp’ for interoperability by Evan Sweeney Jan 5, 2018 1:14pm After several months of public meetings and industry input, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement designed to improve data sharing between health info rmation networks.The framework (PDF), mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act, provides the policies, procedures and technical standards necessary to exchange patient records and health information between providers, state and regional health information exchanges and federal agencies.It also aims to eliminate the burdens of costly point-to-point interactions that healthcare organizations currently face by creating a common set of practices to allow providers, patients, payers and health IT vendors to securely communicate with one another.The voluntary framework is also an attempt to resolve so me of the...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 7, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs