Healthcare Data & Interoperability Blog

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.

May 29, 2024

Majority of Hospitals Participate in Health Data Exchange

When it comes to acute care hospitals, health data exchange and interoperability has expanded, but some gaps remain to be addressed.

May 22, 2024

Bringing Digital Primary Care to Life Through Health Data Interoperability

While we are living in an era of ever-advancing digital care, there still seems to be a lack of trust when it comes to leveraging virtual care solutions.

May 15, 2024

Enhancing EHR Data Integration with RosettaHealth’s GetPatientRecords

When it comes to API EHR integrations, several studies have pointed to how they support patient reported outcomes and data sharing with primary care providers.

May 9, 2024

Advancing Population Health Efforts Through Data Interoperability

According to the American Hospital Association (AHA), population health management is the process of improving clinical health outcomes of a defined group of individuals through improved care coordination and patient engagement.

May 1, 2024

Prior Authorization Consultants: Adding Health Data Interoperability to Your Services

When it comes to prior authorization, it is one of the most challenging, time-consuming, and expensive tasks that medical offices handle. Prior Authorization essentially involves multiple stakeholders and requires both simple and complex processing to complete.