Healthcare Data & Interoperability Blog

March 18, 2026

Insights From HIMSS: How TEFCA and IAS are Erasing the Digital Divide

Why does getting patient data remain a struggle despite nationwide innovation? We’ve compiled our top 3 takeaways from HIMSS26 to examine what’s actually moving the needle in 2026.

March 4, 2026

HIMSS26 Preview: What We’re Watching

Connect with us at HIMSS! We're at booth 361! Stop by anytime to meet the team and learn how we’re streamlining healthcare operations. Watch live demos to experience how GetPatientRecords delivers instant, actionable health records so you can optimize workflows and make smarter, data-driven decisions faster.

December 2, 2025

From Legislation to Litigation: The New Era of Enforcement

Brendan Keeler of HTD Health proposed a powerful metaphor for the evolution of Health Information Technology (HIT) networks: they have matured from "legislation" to "regulation" and finally "litigation".

November 13, 2025

Patient Matching’s Achilles Heel: The Hunt for Safe Harbor

At the heart of nationwide data exchange is a fundamental compromise: patient matching. Organizations currently set matching thresholds "extremely high" to minimize the risk of releasing the wrong person's information, which constitutes a HIPAA breach.

October 13, 2025

The New Reality of Patient Access

Patient Access is no longer a footnote; it's a laser-focused government priority. While the Information Access Services (IAS) requirement under TEFCA is technically mandatory, many in the industry have wondered when this would translate into ubiquitous, real-world data exchange.

August 26, 2025

TEFCA Explained: How National Data Exchange Is Finally Becoming Reality

National health data exchange just took a major step forward. Athenahealth announced it had successfully enabled 100% of its eligible provider network on TEFCA, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.

June 30, 2025

Need Fast, Complete Patient Records? Here's Why You Should Care About the National Networks

If you’ve ever faxed a request for medical records, spent hours calling hospital departments, or waited days (or weeks) for data to show up, you’ve likely asked yourself: Isn’t there a faster way to get patient records? Good news: There is.

August 7, 2024

Enhancing Health Data Interoperability for Prior Authorizations

Prior authorization is one of the most challenging, time-consuming, and expensive tasks that medical offices handle. This is due to prior authorization essentially involving multiple stakeholders and requires both simple and complex processing to complete.

June 19, 2024

Making Data Interoperability Possible for Home Health Agencies

As a key way to advance care outcomes, home healthcare plays a crucial role in helping those who prefer to receive medical and personal assistance in the comfort of their own homes, which has become a viable alternative to nursing homes.

June 12, 2024

Breaking Down Health Data Interoperability Challenges for Individual Care Practices

For individual care practices, it is often challenging to manage all aspects of operations and patient care. Providers are tasked with doing more with less, as well as issues around thinning margins, regulatory pressure, staffing shortages, changes in reimbursement, and increasing patient loads.