Healthcare IT News April 30, 2025
The qualified health information network says it has shrunk the time it takes for providers to access patient data from hours to seconds. Its query volume has grown from about 200,000 to more than 66 million in one year.
The healthcare industry is continuing to make slow but steady progress toward the long-sought-after goal of interoperability, but much of that progress has been uneven. For example, small hospitals lag their large counterparts in interoperability, as do independent hospitals versus system affiliates, as well as rural hospitals compared with urban and suburban hospitals.
Qualified health information networks, or QHINs, are networks of networks – stood up under the federal Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA – that healthcare organizations...
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