Posts in 21st Century Cures Act
Information Blocking – A Million Reasons to be Compliant

Staying compliant with information blocking regulations is essential, not only to avoid penalties but to protect patient trust. With the ONC's rules tightening and hefty fines at stake, it's more critical than ever for EHRs and healthcare providers to understand and adhere to these guidelines, ensuring transparency, data-accessibility, and data-sharing that empowers patients.

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Alert: ASTP/ONC Warns of Information Blocking and Calls for Action

This week, Micky Tripathy, the ASTP/ONC Acting Chief AI Officer, published a blog post addressing significant gaps in the implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act and brought the focus back to FHIR APIs. This blog captures the 5 key points he made to warn and to enforce the mandates. Join the conversation.

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ChatGPT and FHIR: The Possibilities

With the introduction of the HL7® FHIR® standard, accessing patient health records has become easier than ever before. When FHIR is combined with the power of artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT, the results are nothing short of amazing. In this blog, we explore the possibilities of interpreting patient FHIR records with the MeldRx Chat powered by ChatGPT. In the accompanying video, we showcase how patients can receive real-time assistance in understanding complex medical terminologies, test results, and treatment options. We believe that collaboration is the key to driving innovation and advancing healthcare. Join us in the movement towards a more connected and patient-centric healthcare system with ChatGPT and FHIR.

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ONC Announces Consequences of Cures Act Non-Compliance

The ONC has announced its punitive action plan to deal with non-compliant Health IT developers. EHRs failing compliance will undergo Direct Review, have to submit a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) and will be placed under a Certification Ban till they become compliant. Integrating with (g)(10) pre-certified BlueButtonPRO is an easy solution.

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Cures Act: A Patient's Perspective

With the Cures Act deadlines around the corner, the focus has been on “how” to meet the requirements, and not “why”. Let’s not forget that each one of us will be a patient at some point in our lives. When we are the patient, we want Health IT to work for us. We need access to our health data for that and Cures Act makes it possible. This personal experience will make that evident.

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Feel the burn of FHIR®? Get closer to the Flame.

The final implementation phase of the most stringent requirements of the Cures Act has already begun and everyone in Healthcare IT can feel the heat of FHIR® rising. No more delays are likely in the enforcement of the ONC and the CMS rule. If you're trying to find the quickest and shortest path to meeting the Cures Act requirements let us show you SMART® approach and how to leverage the power of FHIR.

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Is (g)(10) FHIR API Certification Keeping You Up at Night?

As the clock ticks away, some of the Cures Act milestones have been realized (Information Blocking, USCDI V1, RWT), while others are approaching fast including the (g)(10) FHIR API. Would you be able to get (g) (10) certified by the Dec 31, 2022, deadline? Discover a Better Way for Your EHR’s 2015 Cures Update Certification Maintenance with Darena Solutions.

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An EHR Developers Dilemma: To Build or Not to Build

Is your EHR concerned about the fast-approaching Cures Act Conditions and Maintenance of Certification deadlines and the timelines for your team to complete internal development, QA testing, Test Wave prep, and deployment to production/users? Darena Solutions can help your EHR dev team answer the classic build vs buy question.

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Real World Testing: Deadlines and Compliance

The latest Condition of Certification to maintain 2015 Edition EHR Certification is approaching fast. The EHRs will need to have an APPROVED Real World Test-plan (RWT) in place by the ONC deadline of Dec 15, 2021. The ACB deadlines are sooner. This blog highlights the specific challenges in meeting the requirements for RWT compliance and possible solutions.

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