HIMSSCast: Don Rucker’s fresh takes on the progress of FHIR, TEFCA and more

Dr. Donald Rucker, former national coordinator for health IT and current chief strategy officer for 1upHealth, spoke to HIMSSCast recently to offer his perspective on some key interoperability policies and trends. Hear what the data maven had to say about the future of FHIR, TEFCA and other information exchange imperatives in this episode.

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Talking Points:

  • Cures Act Exceptions for TEFCA — info blocking allowances.
  • Querying endpoints and patient access to their medical records.
  • Health data that exists outside of EHRs and the future of personalized medicine.
  • Data privacy under HIPAA and multi-party data sharing via QHINs.
  • Special requests for information sharing outside of particular QHINs.
  • Opportunities for AI in data sharing.

More about this topic:

EHRA: Vendors and their healthcare clients ready for ‘info sharing’

HIMSSCast: Epic’s efforts to move the needle on data exchange, through TEFCA and elsewhere

Former ONC chief on TEFCA and the ‘dynamite’ of FHIR

Former ONC chief on TEFCA and the ‘dynamite’ of FHIR, part 2

What Bulk FHIR can do for quality measurement and more

Everything you wanted to know about TEFCA (but were afraid to ask)

Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
Email: afox@himss.org

Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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