Chief Healthcare Executive December 28, 2024
If your organization is considering granting payers direct access to your EHR, there are important safeguards to put in place.
The secure exchange of sensitive patient data is a top priority for healthcare organizations.
2024 exposed healthcare’s privacy and security vulnerabilities with three of the nation’s largest data breaches to date: Change Healthcare, Ascension and Kaiser Permanente. And last year, patient safety and quality ranked 5.9 out of 11 in the list of health system executives’ concerns.
Alongside these realities come new requirements for advanced data sharing including CUREs ACT interoperability rules, expansion of Quality Health Information Networks (QHINs), and adoption of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). Health plans and payers are particularly interested in sharing data...