This whitepaper identifies the leading techniques for health data exchange aligned with the 21st Century Cures Act.
Topics include:
And a collection of real-world use cases and data sharing applications.
Succeeding in the complex business of healthcare requires embracing healthcare delivery transformation. The process describes the industry's response to the disruptive effects of the transition from fee-for-service healthcare to a new pay-for-value model.
The litany of new initiatives driving healthcare transformation offer a variety of payment models. All require sharing of clinical data across the care continuum, including to patients and their care teams.
Health data exchange is no longer optional:
While many data exchange techniques are available in the market, this paper focuses on a few of the most common approaches that are readily available, economical to implement and are supported by HHS/CMS/ONC via incentive payment programs. These include secure email / email encryption, Direct Secure Messaging and open APIs.
about healthcare delivery transformation
There is proven correlation between unobstructed data sharing and better clinical decision-making.
Direct helps advance the mission of the Direct Project, which is to implement common standards in healthcare for the interoperable sharing of electronic information.
Email encryption, Direct Messaging, and open APIs are the future of healthcare data sharing.