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# The BZ Blog: Healthcare Interoperability Roundup

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2020-04-27 

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With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it’s hard to keep up. That’s why we’ve hand-selected recent articles our team agrees are worth a quick read affecting the world of healthcare interoperability.

- [VA, DoD implement new capability for bidirectional sharing of health records with community partners](https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5425)
- [Enforcement of interoperability rules to be relaxed to ease burden on providers](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/hhs-will-relax-enforcement-interoperability-rules-to-ease-burden-providers)
- [Once a holdout, Epic supports new interoperability rules](https://medcitynews.com/2020/04/once-a-holdout-epic-supports-new-interoperability-rules/)
- [OIG proposes rule for civil money penalties for information blocking](https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2020/infoblocking.asp)
- [Balancing health privacy, health information exchange, and research in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocaa039/5814212)
- [Health Care Informatics drives science behind the ‘Covid-19 Curve’](https://www.commdiginews.com/health-science/health/health-care-informatics-drives-science-behind-the-covid-19-curve-129040/)

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