etHIN’s Perspective on Patient Opt Outs, Requests for Data, and Changes to Medical Records

Published April 5, 2023

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 [...]

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How An HIE Approaches Continuous Patient Data Quality Improvement

Published February 9, 2023

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 [...]

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Tennessee Department of Health Updates the List of Reportable Diagnosis Codes for Drug Overdose Reporting

Published January 31, 2023

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 [...]

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East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN) Selects 4medica to Reduce Duplicate Patient Records

Published January 4, 2023

Knoxville, TN, January 4, 2023 – East Tennessee Health Information Network (etHIN) announced today that it has engaged 4medica®, a leader in healthcare data quality and matching technology, to deploy its cloud-based Data Quality Platform to improve patient matching and health data quality. Established in 2005 and headquartered in Knoxville, etHIN reaches 80% of communities [...]

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Syndromic Surveillance Reporting for Urgent Care

Published November 1, 2022

The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is actively working to broaden syndromic surveillance beyond eligible hospitals to include urgent care facilities as more patients in Tennessee utilize these services for immediate medical needs. Syndromic surveillance data can be used to monitor and detect changes in disease frequency and guide preventive measures. Public Health uses an [...]

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