Northwell Awards $1M to Employee-Driven Digital Health Innovation Projects
Northwell Health has awarded $1 million to develop two employee-driven digital health innovation projects as part of the health system’s 2023 Innovation Challenge. Winners of the competition...ACMI Symposium Outlines Public Health Interoperability Strategies
At the 2022 American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) symposium, experts discussed strategies to improve the public health interoperability infrastructure. An article published in JAMIA...Algorithm Harmonizes EHR Data into ‘Macrovisits’ for Clinical Research
Encounters are a heterogeneous component of EHR data, limiting the full potential of leveraging real-world data for clinical research, according to a study published in JAMIA. Researchers demonstrated...Community Health Center Taps athenahealth EHR to Improve Patient Experience
LCH Health and Community Services, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Pennsylvania, has initiated an EHR implementation through vendor athenahealth to provide a cohesive patient experience...Opinion: EHR Reform Requires Clinical Note Reinvention to Cut Clinician Burnout
Removing all financial and administrative functions from patient-clinician interactions is essential for EHR reform to mitigate clinician burnout, according to a viewpoint article published in JAMA...AEHADA Announces Plan to Drive Digital Health Innovation Through Collaboration
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Association for Executives in Healthcare Applications, Data & Analytics (AEHADA) has announced a plan to unite its growing...PCORI Unveils Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research Funding Opportunities
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has announced four new funding opportunities for comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies. "With these latest funding...KLAS Ranks Hospice Health IT Vendors for Customer Satisfaction, Value
Across hospice health IT vendors, customers want more hospice-specific clinical workflows, according to a KLAS report. The report found that Netsmart and Homecare Homebase customers report little...NC Health Information Exchange Authority Launches Stroke Data Registry
The North Carolina Health Information Exchange Authority and the Department of Health and Human Services have kicked off the state's first-ever Stroke Data Registry platform, offering a clearer...Partnership Enables Open Data Sharing for Spinal Cord Injury Research
Backed by a $250,000 grant, the University of Alberta and the Reeve Foundation have launched a joint three-year project to facilitate open data sharing through the Open Data Commons for Spinal Cord...MI HIE Teams Up with AI/AN Tribe for Bidirectional Interoperability
The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) recently announced a significant step towards advancing bidirectional interoperability by adding the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP) to...Sponsored by Surescripts
Writing a New Ending in the Patient Access to Care Story
Burnout and provider shortages. Patients with one or more chronic conditions. Hospitals closing. Uncertainty. These are all phrases that come to mind when thinking about the state of...Sponsored by Consensus Cloud Solutions