David C. Kibbe
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CHIME and DirectTrust Announce Collaboration
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and DirectTrust today announced they are collaborating to promote the universal deployment of the DirectTrust framework and health information exchange network as the common electronic interface for health information exchange across the U.S...
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David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA
Dr. David C. Kibbe, MD MBA, is one of the country’s most productive and innovative clinician- informaticists. In his career, Dr. Kibbe has successfully started three companies in data management, clinical software, and health information exchange standards for secure messaging. In the early 2000s, Dr. Kibbe co-founded Canopy Systems, a national cloud-based software company. He also co-developed the ASTM Continuity of Care (CCR) Standard, the first widely used standard for expressing discrete clinical information in machine readable XML and precursor to both the HL7 C-CDA and FHIR resource standards.
Does Healthcare Need a More Modern Way to Define and Measure EHR Interoperability?
Industry experts and the federal government are divided on the best way to assess the state of the nation’s health IT interoperability. The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT, for instance, has proposed using CIO surveys to gauge the status of interoperability among and between healthcare organizations. To that end, ONC posted a Request for Information (RFI) on how to best assess interoperability that closed last month — just not before drawing some sharp comments from across the industry...
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Does Healthcare Need a More Modern Way to Define and Measure EHR Interoperability?
KLAS executive vice president Taylor Davis said that measuring interoperability can get messy because the EHR market is currently immature. Industry experts and the federal government are divided on the best way to assess the state of the nation’s health IT interoperability. The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT, for instance, has proposed using CIO surveys to gauge the status of interoperability among and between healthcare organizations...
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Keeping Everyone in the Know: New CMS ADT Rule
On March 9, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule aimed at enhancing interoperability and increasing patient access to health information. This Final Rule contains a new Condition of Participation (CoP) that requires all hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals to electronically share (via an electronic health record [EHR] or another electronic administrative system) event notifications (also referred as e-notifications) with other providers across the continuum of care. These event notifications should occur whenever patients have an emergency department (ED) or inpatient admission, discharges, or transfers (also known as ADTs) in community hospitals.
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Number of DirectTrust Users, Transactions, and Addresses Continue to Grow
DirectTrust today announced continued steady growth in the number of Direct exchange users, addresses and transactions. The organization also announced the addition of eight new members since the beginning of the year.,,According to end of first quarter 2016 metrics, the number of health care organizations served by DirectTrust health information service providers (HISPs) and engaged in Direct exchange increased 46% to more than 58,000, compared with the same time last year.
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