Healthcare IT News August 30, 2023
The Regenstrief Institute releases new worldwide health measurement standards, while ONC offers help with a looming Cures Act deadline and signs The Sequoia Project to a new contract to coordinate TEFCA’s next five years.
At the outset of 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s analysis of interoperability and methods of exchange among hospitals, which looked at experiences and data from 2017-2021, indicated significant growth in interoperability among hospitals. “As of 2021, 88% of hospitals engaged in electronically sending and obtaining patient health information, through either querying or electronically receiving a summary of care records,” ONC said.
ONC’s goal for interoperability barriers – such as the 48% of hospitals reporting one-sided sharing relationships in which they...
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