The challenges created by a raging pandemic and our increasing need to easily access and exchange health information are rapidly expanding collaboration around the globe, providing an urgent call to action for those working on standards-based interoperability. The 2021 IHE North American Connectathon, occurring March 1-5, will be center stage for sharing insights gained by the remarkable work that is occurring globally to achieve our shared goal of widespread interoperability and health information exchange.
IHE USA recently submitted comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on the topic of patient identity and matching.
IHE USA, along with 339 organizations across the country have signed onto the multi-stakeholder telehealth letter to congress. The letter urges congress to make the telehealth flexibilities that were put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic permanent.
IHE USA is proud to provide additional support to AI and the HL7 SANER IG Project at the May HL7 FHIR(R Connectathon. IHE USA is participating as an active contributor to the project by funding resources to develop test plans, monitor testing, and coordinate the use of related open source testing tools.
IHE-Europe sees itself forced to announce that the IHE Connectathon Week, initially planned from March 23 - 27, 2020, will be postponed to November 2-6, 2020.
IHE-Europe sees itself forced to announce that the IHE Connectathon Week, initially planned from March 23 - 27, 2020, will be postponed to November 2-6, 2020.
It is easy in our weak moments, our shadow moments, those moments we don’t like to share, to feel disconnected from our communities, our families, our selves. And at those moments when our health impacts our life, which is a nice way of saying when we acutely sense our mortality, it is incredibly easy to feel detached from those who care about us, and those who care for us.
Standards organizations like PCHAlliance, IHE International, Health Level Seven International (HL7), IEEE are leading efforts to ensure standards support mobile health. Learn more about current efforts in the patient device and mobile health domain space from Christina Caraballo, Director at Audacious Inquiry.
The HIMSS response to the ONC Interoperability Standards Advisory included a number of IHE comments! See what IHE had to say!
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced the IHE USA Cooperative Agreement, which will support advancements in the technical standards necessary to achieve interoperability among health IT systems and to reach the milestones identified in the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap and in support of the Cures Act.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these interoperability experts from the swift completion of their appointed tests…
In a special publication from the National Academy of Medicine, the work of IHE features heavily in discussing and implementing interoperability on an organizational level. Check out the report on the NAM website!
Check out the written comments to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in response to their October 2018 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Request for Feedback, including IHE specific comments from IHE USA Board President and Executive Vice President of Informatics at HIMSS, Joyce Sensemeier.
Published March 23, 2018, the latest edition of Blockchain in Healthcare Today features contributions from the HIMSS Blockchain Workgroup.