Health data exchange is essential to meaningful patient care. Providers must be able to leverage accurate and timely health information at the point of care to achieve improvements to the patient...
Two new proposed rules from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aim to advance health information exchange (HIE) interoperability and streamline prior authorization processes.
The...
Memorial Healthcare System has announced an EHR integration partnership with virtual care company KeyCare to provide patients with a high-quality virtual care experience.
Memorial Healthcare...
As the digital health transformation continues, healthcare organizations are looking to EHR implementation investments from eClinicalWorks and Epic to drive interoperability.
CA Gastroenterology Org...
With increasing costs and changing reimbursements for long term care (LTC) delivery, scrutiny of EHR vendor value is high. A recent KLAS report revealed that among fully rated vendors, customers ranked...
There may be additional delays in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Oracle Cerner EHR rollout due to concerns over how the health IT interacts with medical research systems, according to...
The Sequoia Project, a non-profit for nationwide health interoperability, has added four new members to its board of directors, including representatives from EHR vendor OneRecord and the Department of...
ONC has released a Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Information Exchange Toolkit to support communities working toward achieving health equity through SDOH data sharing.
The national SDOH data...
Understanding the scope and drivers of the use of nursing-related free-text EHR orders can help guide clinical workflow optimization, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Researchers led a...
Healthcare industry alliance DirectTrust facilitated an average of over 72 million direct secure messages monthly during Q4 2022, marking a continued growth trend in the past year.
DirectTrust enables...
A clinical decision support (CDS) EHR integration improved patient problem list documentation but did not contribute to improvements in clinical quality measures, according to a study published in...
Epic Systems maintains its position as the largest player in the EHR market as more healthcare organizations continue to invest in Epic EHR implementation. Epic has become one of the most widely used...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will further delay its Oracle Cerner EHR implementation at the agency's Ann Arbor Healthcare System until late 2023 or early 2024, according to reporting...
Clinical decision support (CDS) that includes social determinants of health (SDOH) factors could help advance health equity and improve health outcomes, according to an ONC brief.
CDS uses computable...
Nearly eight in 10 healthcare organizations collect social determinants of health (SDOH) data. Still, challenges related to the EHR coding of this data persist, according to an American Health...
The Democratic chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee voiced his support for VA to continue its EHR modernization (EHRM) program, even as House Republicans have proposed laws that would...
Oracle has signed a contract with Accenture to improve the training clinicians receive on using the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Cerner EHR platform, according to reporting from...
With high levels of clinician burnout across the care continuum, healthcare organizations are leveraging EHR implementations for clinical workflow optimization.
Family Clinic Moves to eClinicalWorks...
Health IT vendor Veradigm, formerly Allscripts, announced a collaboration with healthcare data ecosystem HealthVerity that will leverage registry data to advance chronic disease research.
The...
Terry Adirim, MD, MPH, MBA, executive director of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) electronic health records (EHR) modernization program, will leave the agency on February 25, according...