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HHS Finalizes Rules to Penalize Healthcare Providers Engaging in Information Blocking

HIT Consultant

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new final rule today aimed at preventing information blocking in healthcare. – The final rule establishes disincentives for healthcare providers who engage in practices that interfere with a patient’s access to their electronic health information (EHI).

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Microsoft releases data-driven updates for healthcare cloud

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Microsoft this week unveiled new capabilities to help solve some common roadblocks to enhancing patient engagement and effective health team collaboration, and to help support healthcare organizations more easily leveraging their enterprise data warehousing to fuel clinical and operational analytics. WHY IT MATTERS.

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23andMe Launches Health Action Plan Based on Genetic/Health Data

HIT Consultant

. – Health Action Plan is a helpful first step when it comes to prevention and early risk detection. It offers customers specific actions and next steps on their health journey. – 23andMe reminds customers that they should not use Health Action Plan to replace a visit to their primary healthcare provider.

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Why The Time Is Now for Healthcare Provider Cloud Migration

HIT Consultant

Rick Froehlich, President and Chief Executive Officer at ClearDATA It’s no secret that healthcare is a slow-moving industry. Once data is shifted, the real trick is keeping it all secure, especially for data that’s more sensitive, as is typically seen in the healthcare industry.

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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

Healthcare It News

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. This continuous engagement helps to maintain the stability of patients' conditions and prevent readmissions.

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HHS Proposes HTI-2 Rule to Enhance Healthcare Data Sharing and Interoperability

HIT Consultant

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has taken a significant step towards improving healthcare information exchange with the release of the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) proposed rule.

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Singapore to Pass Comprehensive Health Data Law

Triage Health Law

On December 4, 2023, Singapore’s Ministry of Health (Ministry) announced that the nation’s first ever comprehensive health data law, the Health Information Bill (Bill), will be introduced in mid-2024. A set of Cyber & Data Security Guidelines for Healthcare Providers (Guidelines) was also published.