Clinical Document Architecture
Keeping Everyone in the Know: New CMS ADT Rule
Author: David C. Kibbe, MD 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…
Read MoreThe Strengths and Weaknesses of the HL7 FHIR Messaging Standard
Healthcare IT Data Standards: FHIR Health Level Seven’s (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a new interoperability standard that has rapidly captured the mind-share of the Health Information Technology (HIT) standards community. FHIR is a standard that enables healthcare data sharing between systems in a manner that is more easily implemented and more expressive…
Read MoreReduce Risk & Fiduciary Exposure using Electronic Data Exchange
The WHO reports patient harm as the 14th leading global disease burden, with 42.7 million adverse events occurring during hospitalizations. A 2018 scientific study revealed a 100% error rate in incoming Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) data, which is alarming. Are these errors critical, like missing life-threatening allergy data, or minor, such as empty fields…
Read More