Trust, Technology and the Future of Interoperability: Solving Problems That Impact Real Lives
Healthcare interoperability isn’t an abstract concept; it’s about human connection, building trust and easing burden on patients and their care providers.
How TEFCA Is Speeding Up Disability Benefits Determinations at Hospitals
The Social Security Administration’s move onto the TEFCA interoperability framework is beginning to streamline disability determinations by enabling faster exchange of medical records from hospitals. Dr. David Kaelber, chief health informatics officer at MetroHealth System in Ohio, said the shift is replacing a months-long, fax-driven process with near real-time data sharing.
Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
The Next Frontier of Interoperability: Additional Clinical Data Sources – Dentistry, Devices, Social Care, and More
Healthcare cannot achieve its goals for quality, equity, and value without breaking down the persistent barriers that keep critical information siloed across sectors.
Making Interoperability Privacy Standards Work for the Real World
We are currently experiencing an inflection point for progress in interoperability. Without meaningful reform to reflect the real world, the system risks repeating and even accelerating historical patterns of exclusion — leaving vulnerable patients behind.
What Full-Circle EMS–Hospital Interoperability Looks Like in Practice
From field documentation to post-discharge outcomes, interoperability isn’t a future ideal — it’s a present necessity. Here’s what seamless EMS–hospital data exchange looks like, and why it matters now.
Bringing Patient Data to the Frontlines: Why Interoperability Must Include EMS
EMS providers often treat patients without medical history, risking delays, errors, and guesswork. But new national data-sharing frameworks are starting to close that gap, bringing critical records to first responders in real time.
The Hidden Administrative Tasks Draining Small Practices
Small practices play a critical role in healthcare delivery, but they cannot continue to absorb ever-increasing administrative demands without consequences.
How Redox is Future-Proofing Healthcare Data as Interoperability Standards Evolve
In an interview, Redox CEO Trip Hofer shared why the company is well-positioned to facilitate the push for the nationwide exchange of electronic health information facilitated by the TEFCA framework.
Corporate Compliance in the Era of TEFCA
A culture of compliance means truly valuing an adherence to industry standards, rather than looking at SOPs as a series of boxes that need to be checked in order to claim that requirements have been met.
The Healthcare Interoperability Road Trip – “Are We There Yet?”
Achieving true national interoperability requires that all constituents have access to information that is trustworthy, accurate and presented in a way that is usable and actionable.
Inequity in Interoperability: The Haves and Have-Nots & How QHINs Can Help
Interoperability is moving ahead, but major health systems and hospitals in large population centers must ensure they don’t leave their smaller and more rural counterparts behind.
The Power Behind Enterprise EHR Software for Large Healthcare Systems
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
Why One Healthcare Exec Is Optimistic About the ONC’s New Info Sharing Rule
Jill DeGraff, B.well Connected Health’s senior vice president of regulatory, believes the ONC’s new HTI-1 rule is a step in the right direction that will improve data exchange for providers, health tech vendors and patients. She applauded the rule for preserving TEFCA as a voluntary framework and for establishing FHIR-based interoperability as the industry’s de facto standard.
Why a Former ONC Chief Thinks TEFCA Is Inherently Flawed
Last week, the ONC announced that TEFCA had finally gone live. This followed years of the ONC heralding the project's potential to boost interoperability and increase patients’ access to their healthcare data. However, former ONC Chief Don Rucker believes that TEFCA is built on an archaic data exchange protocol that will prevent the initiative from being useful.
Crossing the Interoperability Finish Line: Will TEFCA Help?
TEFCA’s goal is to establish a universal floor for interoperability across the country by developing the infrastructure model and governing approach for users in different networks to securely share basic clinical information with each other.
Getting to the Golden Age of Healthcare Delivery
To create the Golden Age of Healthcare Delivery, we need to understand healthcare workers’ pain points, personalize systems, and make information systems work for them, to ensure that the Golden Age of Medicine is fully realized for all in every community.
Why Point-of-Care Diagnostic Filtering, Interoperability Are Essential in the Age of TEFCA, QHINs
Without a new set of tools that clinicians can access at the point of care, the availability of information from QHINs will increase provider burdens because they will struggle to find the information needed to evaluate a patient, take action, complete documentation, and move to the next patient.