Healthcare Analytics News February 6, 2019
Physicians want more interoperability — that’s nothing new. The inability to easily exchange personal health information (PHI) from one system to another has led to physician burnout and hinders the many benefits of electronic health records (EHRs).
Over the last decade, strides have been made to establish a nationwide system for PHI exchange. The 21stCentury Cures Act brought more focus to data and system interoperability and in 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services renamed the Meaningful Use program to Promoting Interoperability to heighten its promise of achieving interoperability.
In a webinar hosted by FairWarning, a data security solutions company, Rick Duvall, chief information security architect at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Calif., and John Signorino, chief privacy...