The ONC has announced its punitive action plan to deal with non-compliant Health IT developers. EHRs failing compliance will undergo Direct Review, have to submit a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) and will be placed under a Certification Ban till they become compliant. Integrating with (g)(10) pre-certified BlueButtonPRO is an easy solution.
Read MoreGet up to date on critical Cures Act and BlueButtonPRO services updates to be better prepared for the upcoming deadlines.
Read MoreWith the Cures Act deadlines around the corner, the focus has been on “how” to meet the requirements, and not “why”. Let’s not forget that each one of us will be a patient at some point in our lives. When we are the patient, we want Health IT to work for us. We need access to our health data for that and Cures Act makes it possible. This personal experience will make that evident.
Read MoreThe final implementation phase of the most stringent requirements of the Cures Act has already begun and everyone in Healthcare IT can feel the heat of FHIR® rising. No more delays are likely in the enforcement of the ONC and the CMS rule. If you're trying to find the quickest and shortest path to meeting the Cures Act requirements let us show you SMART® approach and how to leverage the power of FHIR.
Read MoreThe market for FHIR solutions is quickly heating up. While every solution may have its pros and cons, we have recently seen many announcements and promotions that we felt are misguided representations of FHIR solution's actual capabilities related to meeting regulatory requirements. In this blog, I would like to bring to light some facts, to enable you to make an informed decision.
Read MoreMore than any other stakeholder it is patients who stand to gain the most from FHIR enabled semantic interoperability. In this blog, we outline the major benefits that patients can expect to gain from increased interoperability.
Read MoreHealthcare payers stand to benefit from increased interoperability.. We explore why proposed rule CMS-9115 could mean a lot for payers in 2020.
Read MoreLet's take a look at the history, and future, of compliance and interoperability in healthcare, and what to expect out of patient focused semantic interoperability. Will 2020 finally be the year that healthcare changes put the patient first?
Read MoreWhile Apple’s Health App is a great initiative to get healthcare consumer directly involved with FHIR®, there are some serious limitations in this approach. Read how we have used Microsoft® FHIR Server and Azure Cosmos DB in our BlueButtonPRO App to address these limitations while trying to achieve the same end goal i.e. empowering healthcare consumer with access to their healthcare data with Personal FHIR Record.
Read MoreIn our recent blog, we discussed how Microsoft has taken a radically different approach as compared to Amazon and Google for their FHIR® offerings. Yesterday Microsoft announced Azure API for FHIR that adds to it’s open-source project for FHIR. We gave it a try.
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