The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has outlined a 10-year plan to develop an “interoperable health IT ecosystem that can simultaneously improve population health, boost patient engagement and lower costs,” FierceHealthIT reports. By 2024, the office’s health IT infrastructure and data standards aim to support “robust information sharing and aggregation,” the report states. Meanwhile, the new Healthkit app for iOS8 acts as a dashboard that can collect and summarize health data from other connected apps or third-party fitness devices. But how do this and other similar apps negotiate with HIPAA rules, asks a NetworkWorld report?
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