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Epic Taps Ambient Intelligence to Streamline Clinical Documentation

EHRIntelligence EHR documentation requirements have led to clinician burnout, with the average clinician spending over 16 minutes per patient encounter using the EHR. However, advancements in ambient intelligence are transforming clinical documentation, according to Garrett Adams, product lead for the ambulatory research and development division at EHR vendor Epic. Ambient intelligence refers to...


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How DirectTrust is Enhancing Health Data Interoperability, Usability

Over 300,000 healthcare organizations have access to Direct, making it the most ubiquitous interoperability data standard, according to Scott Stuewe, president and CEO of DirectTrust, the non-profit healthcare industry alliance that...

What Providers Can Expect for Information Blocking Enforcement

While the 21st Century Cures Act prohibited information blocking in 2016, healthcare interoperability has remained a persistent challenge across the country. The Cures Act defines information blocking as any practice likely to interfere...

How mCODE is Driving EHR Interoperability for Cancer Research

Historically, restricted EHR interoperability has hindered the cancer research community's ability to harness big data. With siloed data across the healthcare continuum, cancer research has centered on clinical trials. However, these...

Inside Mount Sinai’s Epic EHR Cloud Migration for Health IT Scalability

As the digital health transformation progresses, healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to EHR cloud migration as a cost-effective strategy for health IT scalability. According to Forbes, the market for cloud services in...

AI, Semantic Interoperability Top Health IT Trends for Next Year

As the healthcare industry works toward a more connected health IT infrastructure, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology has emerged as a promising tool to streamline workflows and improve interoperability. According to...

Six Interoperability Use Cases for APIs in Health Data Exchange

The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) in healthcare could revolutionize health data exchange interoperability. Put simply, APIs send information back and forth between a user and a website or app. API adoption is common in...

How Health Informatics, HIE Can Mitigate Impacts of Climate Change

Siloed data across the healthcare industry presents challenges for health information exchange (HIE). However, when a crisis strikes, the health informatics community can optimize data infrastructure to drive interoperability, according to...

How 4 EHR Vendors Are Leveraging Generative AI in Clinical Workflows

Fueled by the recent availability of chatbot interfaces like Chat-GPT, generative AI has become a hot topic across many industries, and healthcare is no exception. Several EHR vendors are tapping the technology to streamline administrative...

How Regenstrief Is Linking Dental & EHR Data to Drive Clinical Research

Dental records and EHR data remain siloed across the care continuum, presenting challenges for clinical research and patient-centered care. This is despite evidence that oral health and overall health go hand-in-hand, experts have said. For...

How Case Western is Prioritizing Epic EHR Training for Medical Students

EHR use has become closely intertwined with the practice of medicine, with a staggering 96 percent of hospitals leveraging the technology. However, hands-on EHR training remains rare in early medical student education. While some medical...

What Role Does the EHR Play in Clinical Informatics?

Healthcare data are the “driving force” of clinical informatics, according to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). With EHR systems serving as central repositories for healthcare data across the care continuum,...

How Clinical Ambient Intelligence Can Address Clinician Burnout

Clinical ambient intelligence solutions could be healthcare’s fix to its clinician burnout problem. The tools have hit the market with the goal of helping providers spend less time staring at a screen and more time delivering...

Understanding Cloud-Based EHR Platforms and Their Benefits

Widespread EHR adoption has revolutionized care delivery through enhanced access to patient data. In recent years, healthcare organizations have increasingly leveraged cloud-based EHR platforms to bolster the positive impact of health IT....

Are Medical Specialty Societies Key to Advancing Health Data Standards?

Health data standards are critical to digital health transformation. However, inconsistent adoption across the care continuum has hampered efforts to leverage EHR data for secondary purposes, such as research, analytics, and quality...

How a Behavioral Health Center Uses HIE to Drive Patient-Centered Care

When Connecticut launched its statewide health information exchange (HIE) in 2021, United Services, a behavioral health center serving the eastern part of the state, was an inaugural member. According to Zachary Dauphinais, MS, clinical...

3 User-Centered Design Practices to Drive EHR Usability, Optimization

Digital health transformation has led to widespread EHR adoption, with 96 percent of hospitals using the technology. However, clinician satisfaction with EHR usability is anything but common. EHR usability is "the effectiveness,...

What Are the Four Levels of Health Data Interoperability?

While health data interoperability has arguably become an industry buzzword over the past decade, the concept's importance for digital health transformation cannot be understated. According to the Healthcare Information and Management...

How Will Information Blocking Enforcement Drive Interoperability?

It’s time for healthcare entities to take information blocking rules and regulations seriously. After all, there could be a million-dollar fine on the line. ONC's 2020 Cures Act Final Rule implemented key provisions of the 21st...

How NCQA is Driving Health Equity Through Inclusive HEDIS Measures

In an industry plagued by health disparities, ensuring that Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures are inclusive is key to moving the needle on health equity, according to Rachel Harrington, PhD, a senior...