HealthLeaders Media January 19, 2021
The Sequoia Project Kicks off group made of HIEs and health systems with focus on how healthcare interoperability can benefit public health.
Lessons learned from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will inform a new task force formed by The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit advocate for nationwide healthcare information interoperability.
Sequoia’s new Emergency Preparedness Information Workgroup will use these lessons to recommend appropriate steps for making information more available to support disaster preparations in the future.
State-related policy and regulatory issues, programmatic challenges, data privacy, funding, resources, and communications are some of the interoperability and health IT challenges where the new workgroup will focus.
The new workgroup will also serve as a forum for states and other stakeholders to share lessons learned...