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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT this week launched its new Synthetic Health Data Challenge – offering researchers a chance to explore new avenues of medical research.
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Participants are invited to develop and test innovative new tools and approaches to build on the capabilities of Synthea, an open-source synthetic patient generator that models the medical histories of synthetic patients.
The goal is to advance research and development and to validate the realism of synthetic health records generated by Synthea, according to ONC – creating or improving disease-progression and treatment modules used to create synthetic records, and driving innovative new uses of synthetic health data.
Seema Verma is administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
This article was coauthored with Alexandra Mugge, deputy chief health informatics officer at CMS, and Shannon Sartin, chief technology officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
In 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the White House Office of American Innovation, publicly announced our commitment to ensuring that patients would have access to their healthcare data wherever and whenever they need it, and we commenced on a journey to break down the barriers that keep critical patient health information locked in digital silos.
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has published a series of guides and tool kits to help tech developers get a jump on compliance with its 21st Century Cures Act Final Rule.
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The compliance dates for ONC s information blocking rules may have been pushed back due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, but they still draw nearer by the day.
ONC has provided these new resources meant to help the health IT developer community build products that meet the new certification requirements for standards-based APIs that can be used without special effort.
Among these new resources, the 2015 Edition Cures Update Key Dates compiles the timelines developers need to adhere to in the work to develop certified systems, and help them keep apprised of the requirements they must meet along the way.
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Through all of this year’s tumultuous ups and downs, one trend that has remained unstoppable – and has even accelerated – is the healthcare sector’s adoption of technology.
MobiHealthNews has covered the payer space as it continually pushes further into the world of digital health, and 2020 proved no different. From traditional insurers embracing technology to massive expansions of telehealth, to innovative insurtech companies hitting the public market, this roundup goes deep into how payers are turning towards tech amid a changing world. Read on for a recap of payer digital health news from 2020.
Insurers upping their technology game
As much of this year was spent navigating different stay-at-home and social distancing mandates, many turned towards technology as a way to receive healthcare. As a result, even the most traditional healthcare insurers upped their tech-game this year.