The secure exchange of sensitive patient data is a top priority for healthcare organizations.
2024 exposed healthcare’s privacy and security vulnerabilities with three of the nation’s largest data breaches to date: Change Healthcare, Ascension and Kaiser Permanente. And last year, patient safety and quality ranked 5.9 out of 11 in the list of health system executives’ concerns.
Alongside these realities come new requirements for advanced data sharing including CUREs ACT interoperability rules, expansion of Quality Health Information Networks (QHINs), and adoption of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA). Health plans and payers are particularly interested in sharing data with healthcare organizations to process claims, conduct audits, and comply with quality reporting requirements.
One thing is certain in the year ahead. Sharing your patients’ data will be more essential and more challenging.
In a roundtable discussion at the recent Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) National Convention, MRO brought together numerous HCO leaders to discuss data sharing and payer access to electronic health records (EHRs). The company also partnered with the College of Health Information Management Executives (CHIME) earlier in 2024 to conduct an industry survey on clinical data exchange between providers and payers. This article summarizes the positive, negative, and cautionary insights across those two events.
Glean insights from Angela Rose, MRO’s Vice President of Client Success, in this article published by Chief Healthcare Executive.