Diameter Health President John D’Amore discusses the ONC and CMS rulings and the future of interoperability in the U.S.

OCR Director Roger Severino agrees. In a statement on the Lifespan case, he put it simply:“Laptops, cellphones, and other mobile devices are stolen every day, thats the hard reality,” said Severino. “Covered entities can best protect their patients’ data by encrypting mobile devices to thwart identity thieves.”

We need to embrace the interest in humanity and its expression through caring that Dr. Peabody described; and we do that by tapping our own empathy for the fragmented and complex system our patients attempt to navigate today: Imagining and at times feeling what another person feels, and then doing something about it. Imagine what empathy can do when fully operationalized.3

The report concludes there is evidence that Medicares new telehealth flexibilities played a critical role in helping to maintain access to primary health care services - when many beneficiaries and providers were concerned with transmission of COVID-19. Future research could examine whether these flexibilities were effective and if telehealth may have improved access to care and health outcomes among underserved beneficiaries.

Prior to the deadline to comply with the ONC interoperability rule, the Sequoia Project has developed the Information Blocking Compliance Boot Camp for healthcare organizations and health IT developer

This is important because current hospitalization data had become the most reliable indicator of the severity of outbreaks in different states, the group said. Unfortunately, now were not sure if some of the erratic changes in hospitalizations that were seeing are due to reporting problems or real changes on the ground.

And transmissions by fax or spreadsheet can require workers to manually re-enter information into their computer systems, increasing the risk of errors or duplicate entries.Some public health officials say theyve been especially vexed by the ubiquity of fax machines, with their blurry printouts and analog data.

With each specialist who walked in the room and made us repeat his story, I bluntly and emotionally asked them: Didnt you read his chart? Didnt you talk to the other physicians?

Online resource to help clinicians answer questions about health IT

As the U.S. reckons with centuries of structural racism, an important step toward making health care more equitable will require transferring control of health records to patients and patient groups.