iShare Medical

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving!
iShare Medical is the nationwide online platform for healthcare interoperability, integration, and automation for patients, providers, payers, and devices.

11/06/2023

HHS Proposed Rule to Establish Disincentives for Health Care Providers that have Committed Information Blocking comment period to ends 12/30/2023 to go into effect on 1/2/2024

HHS Proposes Rule to Establish Disincentives for Health Care Providers that have Committed Information Blocking

11/01/2023

Seeing Double or more? The Truth About Patient Identity and Matching - Walk into any doctor’s office, hospital, or pharmacy and the first question you are most likely asked is “What is your name and date of birth?” Patient matching in the U.S. healthcare system is done based on the patient’s name and date of birth, an approach that can lead to costly preventable medical errors.

Walk into any doctor’s office, hospital, or pharmacy and the first question you are most likely asked is “What is your name and date of birth?” Patient matching in the U.S. healthcare system is done based on the patient’s name and date of birth, an approach that can lead to costly preventabl...

10/05/2023

Safeguarding Healthcare Data: The Essential Role of PKI
What is PKI? How Does PKI work? What are the use cases for PKI?

Safeguarding Healthcare Data: The Essential Role of PKI

09/17/2023

Post-Quantum Cryptography Securing the Digital Future

Post-Quantum Cryptography Securing the Digital Future

05/15/2023

Why is Healthcare all abuzz about API's?
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Why is Healthcare all abuzz about API's? An API or application program interface is a service that listens for requests to perform a task and then ...

05/01/2023

What is a Direct Address and Direct Standard Messaging Account? - A Direct Address is an electronic endpoint for sharing medical records nationwide.
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A Direct Address is an electronic endpoint for sharing medical records nationwide.

04/27/2023

Whats CRUD got to do with streamling workflow? Everything - CRUD is an acronym used in IT that stands for the essential four operations that are necessary to create and maintain up-to-date information in a database.
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CRUD is an acronym used in IT that stands for the essential four operations that are necessary to create and maintain up-to-date information in a database.

04/24/2023

FTCs 8 Best Practice Guidelines for Health App Developers - recommends eight best practices for app developers to provide sound and practices.
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FTC recommends eight best practices for consumer health app developers to provide sound privacy and security practices.

04/20/2023

FTC's "Second-of-Its-Kind" $7.8 Million Civil Penalty for Breach of Unsecured Data by a Consumer App by a Covered Entity - BetterHelp $7.8 million settlement for alleged violations of the Health Breach Notification Rule and FTC Act Section 5 Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices
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BetterHelp $7.8 million settlement for alleged violations of Health Breach Notification Rule and FTC Act Section 5 Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices

04/17/2023

FTC's "First-of-Its-Kind" $1.5 Million Civil Penalty for Breach of Unsecured Data by a Consumer Health App - GoodRx $1.5 million settlement for alleged violations of the Health Breach Notification Rule and FTC Act Section 5 Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices
https://hubs.la/Q01LF2Wh0

GoodRx $1.5 million settlement for alleged violations of the Health Breach Notification Rule and FTC Act Section 5 Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices

04/07/2023

What is a healthcare Direct Address?
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A Direct Address is an electronic endpoint for records nationwide. The Direct Address is bound to the of the owner which can be a , , , or . 

03/30/2023

2020 Vision For This Decade 2020 - 2030 is Based on Three HealthIT Pillars
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2020-2030 Vision 3 healthIT pillars: 1 Digital Identity 2 Interoperability 3 Learning Health System that are the foundation for new payment and care models.

08/30/2022

Identity Week America

I am honored to be a keynote speaker at Identity Week America presenting on Digital in . I will be discussing the importance of digital identity in the healthcare environment, touching on security, privacy, trust, and looking into my crystal ball to give my predictions on what the future looks like for digital identity in healthcare.

A complete list of Keynote speakers are:

🎯 Kenneth D. Gantt, Deputy Director, Office of Biometric Identity Management, Department of Homeland Security
🎯 Dror Gurevich, Founder and CEO, Velocity Network Foundation, Israel
🎯 Diane Sabatino, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Officer of Field Operations, U.S. Customs & Border Protection
🎯 David P. Pekoske, Acting Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
🎯 Mike Rogers, Chairman, The MITRE Corporation
🎯 Linda Van Horn, President, CEO, iShare Medical
🎯 Kathleen Kiernan, President, NEC National Security Systems
🎯 Matthew Hertz, CEO, Pipl

11/16/2021

Why didn't the publish the draft Common Agreement? Elements were published but access to the draft was limited to workgroup insiders yet "The Common Agreement is currently under development and will be released in final form in Q1 of 2022." https://rce.sequoiaproject.org/common-agreement-elements/

Elements of the Common Agreement: Stakeholder Feedback Opportunity Feedback Form Closed October 21, 2021Email rce@sequoiaproject.org anytime View Elements of theCommon Agreement (PDF) Read News Release View Public Feedback View Draft QHIN Eligibility Criteria Elements of the Common Agreement Now Ava...

11/10/2021

iShare Medical salutes our Veterans. Thank you for our freedom.

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iShare Medical Salutes Our Veterans: Thank You.

11/10/2021

Join us on 11/17/2021 at noon CT for a complimentary webinar on The Three HealthIT Pillars for this Decade | can't attend on 11/17/21? Register at and we'll email you the recording https://resources.isharemedical.com/three_pillars-webinar-0-0-0

The Three Pillars are: 1) Digital Identity 2) Interoperability 3) Learning Health System

10/28/2021

iShare Medical Event Notifications is the cost-effect and simple way for hospitals & physicians to implement event notifications via direct standard to send/receive notices when patients are admitted discharged or transferred (also known as ADTMessages to/from a hospital. Find out more at https://resources.isharemedical.com/benefits-of-notifications