Tag: data sharing

August 22, 2018

The federal government’s efforts to combat Medicaid fraud and overpayments, which totaled nearly $37 billion in fiscal year 2017, must be strengthened by improving its data oversight system. That’s the message that the Government Accountability Office and lawmakers delivered on […]

August 13, 2018

The United Network for Organ Sharing is working with software vendors Cerner and Statline to automate manual processes surrounding organ donations. The initiative aims to improve the process for notifying hospitals about potential organ donors, with the hopes of reducing […]

May 24, 2018

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed legislation by a vote of 92 to 5 that would significantly broaden information sharing between the Department of Veterans Affairs and non-VA healthcare providers. The bipartisan VA Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside […]

May 9, 2018

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs voted on Tuesday to pass legislation that streamlines and consolidates the VA’s community care programs, including establishing processes to improve information sharing with non-VA providers and ensuring safe opioid prescribing practices. The VA Maintaining […]

May 4, 2018

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration have issued guidance to help providers apply Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 2 to healthcare settings, including the […]

May 1, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has released a new feature available via its My HealtheVet portal that provides veterans with online access to their medical images and associated study reports. The VA Medical Images and Reports feature on My HealtheVet […]

April 20, 2018

The Drug Enforcement Administration has reached an agreement with attorneys general from 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to share prescription drug information with one another to help with criminal investigations. DEA will provide the attorneys general […]

April 18, 2018

Leaders of the Senate health committee on Tuesday introduced bipartisan legislation designed to help combat the nationwide opioid epidemic through the increased collection, analysis and sharing of data to track controlled substance prescribing and the effects of drug abuse. The […]

March 26, 2018

President Trump last week called for a nationally interoperable network of state-run Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs as part of a new initiative to combat the opioid epidemic. However, the standards and infrastructure for data sharing nationwide between state PDMPs already […]

March 23, 2018

The Senate and House have passed an omnibus spending bill funding the federal government through the end of September that includes $37 billion for the National Institutes of Health—an increase of $3 billion above the fiscal year 2017 enacted level—including […]

March 21, 2018

The new Trump administration program to fight the opioid crisis is suggesting a constructive data-based approach to monitoring problematic prescriptions through its proposal for a national prescription drug monitoring network, says the head of Health IT Now, an industry coalition. […]

March 20, 2018

President Trump on Monday announced a wide-ranging policy initiative aimed at confronting the forces of supply and demand that are fueling the country’s opioid epidemic, including cutting nationwide opioid prescription fills by one-third within three years. In an effort to […]

March 9, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a beta version of its cloud-based application programming interface management platform that will provide commercial software developers with access to tools for building mobile and web apps on a standard set of APIs. […]

February 22, 2018

Algorithms developed by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the Regenstrief Institute have been shown to accurately predict the need for social determinants of health (SDOH) service referrals among patients at a safety-net hospital by leveraging clinical and community-level data. IUPUI […]

February 21, 2018

As the Senate Finance Committee examines new policies to improve access to care and the quality of treatment by addressing root causes that lead to substance abuse, healthcare chief information officers are giving committee leaders Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron […]

February 16, 2018

President Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year 2019 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services would make combating the opioid epidemic one of the agency’s top priorities, including $10 billion in HHS funding to address the crisis. As part of […]

February 15, 2018

While blockchain has a number of potentially promising healthcare applications, including the management of electronic health records, the technology has certain pitfalls that may inhibit its utility. That’s the message delivered on Wednesday to lawmakers by Chris Jaikaran, a cybersecurity […]

January 22, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has proposed a new rule making it easier for the VA to share patient records with community healthcare providers, health plans, governmental agencies and other entities participating in health information exchanges. The proposed rule, published […]

January 19, 2018

The challenge of making progress toward the interoperability of healthcare information systems will be one of the key challenges facing a newly formed advisory group that held its first meeting on Thursday. The 30-member panel is charged with several tasks, […]

January 18, 2018

The new Health Information Technology Advisory Committee, charged under the 21st Century Cures Act with making recommendations to the National Coordinator for HIT on the implementation of healthcare infrastructure, will hold its inaugural meeting Thursday. The 30-member HITAC, which replaces […]