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Carequality interoperability network celebrates 10 years of HIE

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...


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Arkansas Heart deploys Oracle Health EHR to enhance interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Arkansas Heart Hospital is implementing Oracle Health EHR and patient accounting solutions across its network of ambulatory clinics and two hospitals to drive interoperability. In combination with the...

SC Health System Invests $40M in Epic EHR Platform for Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Tidelands Health, an affiliate of The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health, is replacing multiple health IT systems with an Epic EHR to enhance health data interoperability. The $40...

How DirectTrust is Enhancing Health Data Interoperability, Usability

by Hannah Nelson

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...

ONC, SAMHSA Launch Initiative for Behavioral Health IT Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have partnered on an initiative that aims to...

Interwell Health Adds 8 Practices to Nephrology-Focused Epic EHR System

by Hannah Nelson

Interwell Health, a kidney care management company, has added eight practices to its nephrology-focused Epic EHR system in the past year. The Acumen Epic Connect EHR is an Epic configuration that aims...

ENT Practice Increases Patient Engagement with eClinicalWorks EHR

by Hannah Nelson

Arizona-based Valley ENT, PC has tapped an eClinicalWorks EHR platform to drive patient engagement and improve patient care. As a multi-specialty practice, Valley ENT sought out a unified platform to...

University Hospitals Transitions to Epic EHR to Drive Care Coordination

by Hannah Nelson

University Hospitals (UH) has transitioned to a unified Epic EHR to enhance care coordination across the health system. Cliff Megerian, MD, FACS, chief executive officer of UH, noted that the EHR...

NY Orthopaedic Practice Taps athenahealth EHR for Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Bone & Joint of Albany, NY, has partnered with athenahealth to implement a suite of cloud-based EHR, medical billing, and patient engagement solutions. The independent orthopaedic practice...

Massachusetts Taps Health IT to Drive Behavioral Health Care Coordination

by Hannah Nelson

The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has awarded health IT vendor PointClickCare Technologies a contract to implement a behavioral health...

WV Practice Taps Oracle Health EHR for Health Data Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Months after Charleston Area Medical Center and Mon Health merged to create Vandalia Health, the health system signed a 10-year agreement to deploy Oracle Health's EHR to drive health...

Epic EHR Set to Streamline Care Team Communication at Albany Med

by Hannah Nelson

Albany Med Health System is continuing work on a unified Epic EHR implementation that is set to drive care team communication. In May 2023, the implementation team completed the build work necessary...

Provider Orgs Deploy eClinicalWorks EHR Systems for Care Coordination

by Hannah Nelson

Life is a Journey, a behavioral health practice outside of Dallas, Texas, has selected eClinicalWorks EHR to improve care coordination.  The EHR vendor's behavioral health module includes...

HIE Boosts Care Coordination, Home Discharge Among Older Adults

by Hannah Nelson

Health information exchange (HIE) may mitigate information discontinuity present in fragmented readmissions, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open. Fragmented readmissions,...

3 Healthcare Orgs Look to EHR Implementations for Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

As the digital health transformation progresses, healthcare organizations across the nation are investing in EHR implementations to drive interoperability.  Mississippi Practice Implements...

Mental Health Facility Moves to eClinicalWorks EHR for Streamlined Care

by Sarai Rodriguez

Palmetto Counseling & Consulting, a northern South Carolina mental health facility, will begin an eClinicalWorks EHR implementation as part of an EHR platform switch to streamline clinical...

Medical-Dental Partnership Uses Epic Systems EHR for Integrated Care

by Sarai Rodriguez

Pacific Dental Services (PDS) has announced a partnership with MemorialCare to provide integrated care, enabling patients to receive oral healthcare and medical care in the same location through Epic...