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...
March 20, 2024 - Epic and athenahealth have the greatest EHR mindshare for potential purchasing decisions across independent ambulatory practices, according to the 2024 KLAS Ambulatory EHR/PM Mindshare report.
To collect mindshare data, KLAS asked 152 ambulatory practices, "If you were hypothetically in the market for a core EHR/PM solution, who would be your top...