Why Hospitals Are Passive Aggressive with Data + 11 Updates Not to Miss

With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up and difficult to see where the work that we, and our peers, do is being applied to help caregivers and patients. 

That's why we've hand-selected these recent articles featuring the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues that our team finds to be worth a quick read.

• Improvements Needed in Adding Non-VA Medical Records to Veterans' Electronic Health Records
• VA Makes the Case for Another Record Funding Request in 2022

• HHS Releases Project US@ Draft Technical Specification Version 1.0 for Comment
• ONC Health IT Framework for Advancing SDOH Data Use and Interoperability
• Leadership Discusses Lessons Learned from Latest MHS GENESIS Waves

SDOs & Other Organizations

• New Report Identifies the Benefits of Using SNOMED CT for its Broad Range of Stakeholders

Industry

• Walmart Provides Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record
• Google Cloud, HCA Healthcare Agree To Partner On Data Analytics Platform

Healthcare Topics

• In the Wake of the Pandemic, a Wish List From Informaticians
• Hospital Patient Portal Adoption, Patient Data Access Reaches Ubiquity
• Many Hospitals Still Holding Out On Direct Health Information Sharing
• What Is a Leading Query?

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