Collaborating to Improve Immunization Data Sharing to Ensure Healthy Communities
Gathering and sharing accurate information on who has or has not been immunized and where the vaccine stockpiles may be located are important components of the public health strategy to overcome disease.
Meet the HIMSS18 Veterans Career Services Scholarship Recipients
The HIMSS Veterans Career Services (VCS) Initiative, sponsored by HIMSS Chapters, welcomes transitioning military veterans into the health information and technology field.
A Patient’s Guide to Telemedicine: What to Do When Your Doctor Calls or Video-Chats with You
Telehealth visits are quickly becoming a mainstay of healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many health systems encourage patients to shift to telehealth as a first choice to discuss possible symptoms, rather than going to the hospital emergency room.
Analysis: CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Regulation
Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals will be required to send electronic patient event notifications of a patient’s admission, discharge and/or transfer to another healthcare facility or to another community practitioner as one of their Conditions of Participation for the Medicare and M...
CARES Act Includes $500 Million to Modernize the Nation’s Public Health Data Infrastructure
The CARES Act includes $500 million that solidifies congressional and Trump Administration support for Data: Elemental to Health, a multi-year campaign to modernize the public health infrastructure in the United States.
CARES Act Provisions for Healthcare and Health IT
The CARES Act stimulus package, totaling over $2.2 trillion, addresses many facets of society, including healthcare delivery, state funding, small business and non-profit relief, and overall economic stimulus.
States Tackling COVID-19 Using Information and Technology
As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 continues to grow, state policymakers in the United States are taking extensive actions to manage the spread through information and technology.
Analysis: ONC Interoperability and Information Blocking Final Regulation
ONC’s Final Regulation is intended to allow the flow of critical clinical information from system to system and provider to provider in part to facilitate better decision support and support new alternative payment models for care.
HIMSS and PCHAlliance Comment on Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
HIMSS and PCHAlliance provided written comments in response to the Draft 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan.
HHS OIG Releases Proposed Regulation on Information Blocking Civil Money Penalties
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a Proposed Regulation on Civil Money Penalties related to the information blocking provisions included in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Interoperability Regulation.
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ONC and CMS Announce Enforcement Discretion for Interoperability Regulations to Allow the Community Time to Address COVID-19
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a period for enforcement discretion around implementation of the final interoperability regulations to provide all health system stakeholders with additional tim...
HIMSS and PCHAlliance Submit Letter in Support of FCC Actions to Address COVID-19
HIMSS and PCHAlliance expressed support for many of the critical measures the Federal Communications Commission has taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.