Finland and Estonia launched an updated version of their population data sharing tool this week to give each country a better ...

Healthcare providers across the country are beginning to address population health through various means, including preventive health measures, post-discharge follow-up and education. To truly ...

With technology companies and government agencies working together, the healthcare industry has achieved important milestones toward improving the interoperability of healthcare IT systems. For ...

Kate Berry, CEO of the National eHealth Collaborative, which recently released a roadmap for establishing and operating successful health information exchanges (see page XX), figures she caught the ...

Federal regulators have been stressing for years the importance of using secure national health information exchange as a way to help improve the quality of care while controlling cost. Now, a new ...

A new funding opportunity announced late last week will pave the way. Easing the way of a nationwide health information network will be a major priority for the Office of the National Coordinator for ...

An interim data format for converting from one file or database structure to another. Also called a "data interchange format," the source data is converted into the exchange format by one program, and ...

The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange has developed a genomic data exchange workgroup, according to a HIT Consultant report. • Grant Wood, senior IT strategist of the Clinical Genetics ...