In the US, big leaps
have been made toward industry-wide interoperability in
recent years. From
establishing a standard set of health data that must be exchanged,
to broadening the
scope of the ban on information blocking—recent regulations have driven positive advancements to
simplify health data sharing across vendors and venues of care.
On top of all that,
the Office of the National Coordinator and The Sequoia Project,
the Recognized
Coordinating Entity for the Trusted Exchange Framework and
Common Agreement
(TEFCA) established under the 21st Century Cures Act, announced
the first
applications accepted for Qualified Health Information Networks
(QHINs) under the
TEFCA. That short list included CommonWell Health
Alliance, of
which Cerner,
now Oracle Health, was
a founding member nearly a decade ago.
This is a leap forward
in achieving our vision for
interoperability. Our
shared goal with CommonWell joining TEFCA is to build a nationwide health information
exchange,
leveraging a
collaborative trade organization, that will help give patients
access to their
healthcare data regardless of where they receive
care.
Listen in as we talk
about the exciting progress toward nationwide
interoperability and
how it will benefit patients and providers.
Featuring:
Paul Wilder, Executive
Director, CommonWell Health Alliance
Sam Lambson, Vice
President of Interoperability, Oracle Health
Hear them
discuss:
• TEFCA and what it
means for advancing interoperability (2:10)
•
Benefits of better
information exchange for providers and
patients (3:49)
•
How a record-location
service is more accurate, efficient and secure than geo-locating like many systems use today (6:45)
• When does TEFCA
start affecting patients and providers at the point of care?
(13:04)
•How does TEFCA impact
gaps between care, translating care, and settings of
care, like telehealth? How
does it affect patient engagement and involvement? (17:00)
• Ways to learn more
and ask questions (19:20)
Notable
quotes:
"Me having my data is not just a toy.
It’s not just I want the image because it’s
interesting … I
want the report.
It’s that I
want to manage my health, or
that of my children, or
my parents in a better way—which I
think in the end is really going
to benefit the
provider."
- Paul Wilder
"And think of mental
health—it gets even more
robust as we’re expanding
services a lot right now.
If we don’t do it
efficiently, it’s going to get
very expensive. And getting past all those administrative flows to get to the care you
need at the level the person can do it in front of you—as opposed to
what the data is allowing you to do—is,
I think, really
important."
- Paul Wilder
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