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East Tennessee Health Information Network
etHIN’s connection to the Joint Health Information Exchange provides access to veteran and military service member medical records A new connection between etHIN and the VA/DOD Joint Health Information Exchange (JHIE) through the eHealth Exchange offers numerous benefits to etHIN participants. The JHIE facilitates the sharing of health information between the U.S. Department of Veterans [...]
Micky Tripathi and Jonathan Blum | OCTOBER 30, 2023 A new proposed rule released today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) details HHS’ first steps for holding health care providers accountable for information blocking under the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act). Specifically, the “21st Century Cures Act: Establishment of Disincentives for [...]
Tennessee residents are automatically opted in for sharing their medical data among healthcare providers as permitted under HIPAA. Patients have the right to ‘opt out’ or not allow sharing of their protected health information among their healthcare providers, including providers who participate in East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN). The patient also has the right [...]
An HIE in Tennessee has tapped an AI-based platform to reduce duplicate patient EHRs as part of its patient data quality improvement efforts. Source: Getty Images https://ehrintelligence.com/features/how-an-hie-approaches-continuous-patient-data-quality-improvement By Hannah NelsonAssistant Editorhnelson@xtelligentmedia.com February 08, 2023 – The cornerstone of a health information exchange (HIE) is continuous patient data quality improvement, according to Pam Matthews, chief executive officer and [...]
Effective January 2023, the Drug Overdose Reporting (DOR) List of Reportable Diagnosis Codes was expanded in order to capture nonfatal overdose events more accurately across the state and improve surveillance for nonfatal polysubstance overdoses. Facilities will be required to report drug overdoses containing 78 new ICD-10-CM codes under three new categories of substance (cannabis and [...]
