Health Information Exchange News and Resources for Healthcare

How Can Health Informatics Help Overcome the Impact of Climate Change?

December 18, 2023 - In this episode of Healthcare Strategies, Assistant Editor Hannah Nelson chats with Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, Regenstrief Institute research scientist, about how health informatics can help address the impacts of climate change on public health. The conversation focuses on the need for organizations to integrate data systems to enhance preparedness and response to...

How FHIR Can Support Post-Acute Care, Advance Directive Interoperability

April 17, 2023 by Hannah Nelson

While advance care planning documents are key for meeting patients' end-of-life care wishes, data siloes can prevent providers from accessing critical information when it matters most. An upcoming...

VA EHR System Outage, California Launching Statewide HIE

April 13, 2022 by Hayden Schmidt

Connected health technology is making inroads in the State of California as officials there prepare to release the framework for their new statewide health information exchange (HIE) database in July....

Value-Based Care is Improving Chronic Disease Management

February 24, 2022 by Hayden Schmidt

Nearly two-thirds of providers see value-based care as a way to improve relationships with patients and enhance care management strategies, according to reporting from Insights by Xtelligent Healthcare Media. Currently, chronic diseases...

Bringing Payers, Patients into the Health Data Exchange Conversation

January 17, 2022 by Kyle Murphy, PhD

The adoption of electronic health records and creation of health information networks have spurred greater health data exchange between providers. While plenty of work must be done to ensure providers...

Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug Under CMS, FDA Watch; EO Looks to Prescription Drug Spending

July 14, 2021 by Emily Sokol, MPH

CMS announced it will begin coverage determination investigations for the controversial Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, while the drug’s approval process is also being investigated by the FDA....