March 28, 2024 - ONC has released the draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment.
The agency developed the draft in partnership with more than 25 federal organizations.
The preceding 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan drove progress across government and industry to improve the access, sharing, and use of electronic health...
March 27, 2024 - Carequality, a national interoperability trusted exchange framework for health information exchange (HIE), is celebrating its tenth anniversary since The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit advocate for nationwide HIE, first launched the initiative.
Carequality became an independent nonprofit organization five years ago. Today, the framework supports the...
March 26, 2024 - Adopters of interoperability solutions for clinical communications report various levels of EHR integration, even among the most deeply engaged clients, according to a KLAS report.
Most respondents indicated at least one key interoperability challenge with their communications tools that especially affects their use cases and outcomes.
Some deep...
March 25, 2024 - A system error in the new Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR contributed to the accidental overdose of a patient in 2022, according to a VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report.
The patient died approximately seven weeks after a missed appointment at the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus.
The OIG conducted an internal...