The nonprofit health alliance DirectTrust announced Tuesday that it had acquired the assets of SAFE Identity, including its trust framework. As an industry consortium and certification body supporting identity assurance in healthcare, company representatives say SAFE Identity has maintained…
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Digital health tools can help with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
As the pace of COVID-19 vaccination has slowed, the priorities of decision-makers have begun to turn from managing a deluge of interest toward reaching out to those who may be reluctant to get inoculated. There is a range of…
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DirectTrust hits major milestone with 2B exchange transactions
DirectTrust announced this week that there were 719 million Direct Secure Messages sent and received this past year, bringing the total number of transactions since the nonprofit began tracking them in 2014 – up past 2.1 billion at the end…
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NHS England report calls for law to require greater sharing of patient data
A draft NHS England report on overprescribing leaked to HSJ [paywall], proposes that the law should require wider access to healthcare data, in a bid to improve patient safety. The review carried out for health secretary, Matt Hancock, highlights the issue of…
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HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation
As we focus this month on the topic of Leadership Fundamentals for Digital Transformation, we wanted to ask one healthcare leader – Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, parent company of Healthcare IT News – for his thoughts on the fundamental…
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS FT awarded Stage 7 O-EMRAM
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS FT (GOSH) in London has been awarded Stage 7 on the O-EMRAM by HIMSS this week, making it the first hospital in England to achieve the validation. O-EMRAM, or the Outpatients Electronic Medical…
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Cerner unveils new interoperability tools, as CEO Brent Shafer says 'innovation is accelerating'
At the 35th annual Cerner Health Conference, which launched virtually on Tuesday, CEO Brent Shafer described the many ways the company has been helping providers around the world deliver high-quality healthcare more efficiently during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We created tools…
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Judy Faulkner talks lessons learned from Epic's COVID-19 response
Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Monday offered her perspective on how the company has responded to the COVID-19 crisis – and described some of the lessons learned along the way. She spoke during a discussion at HLTH VRTL 2020 Monday with…
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Patients want to download their own health data, report shows
With the deadline quickly approaching for healthcare providers to implement the new information blocking rules put in place under the 21st Century Cures Act, a new survey suggests that patients are on board with the changes to come. The survey…
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TEFCA could introduce a 'new exchange paradigm'
Since the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, federal agencies have been working to implement systems that allow health information networks to exchange information around the country. “There’s a large recognition of the success we’ve had in…
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