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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EHR vendor MEDITECH has expanded its longstanding partnership with Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft company, by integrating a tool that uses generative AI to draft clinical...
Microsoft has partnered with several healthcare organizations to streamline workflows through the deployment of a generative AI tool that drafts clinical documentation.
The Nuance Dragon Ambient...
The Surescripts 2023 National Progress Report underscores interoperability gains across the health information exchange (HIE) network, including a 10 percent increase in patient data sharing compared...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense (DoD), and Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) office recently launched the federal EHR at the Captain James A. Lovell...
HEALTHeLINK, a health information exchange (HIE) serving Western New York, has launched a dashboard to support community health.
The HEALTHeWNY Dashboard allows users to search data at a county and...
Several EHR vendors, including Epic and Oracle, have agreed to adopt United States Core Data for Interoperability Plus Cancer (USCDI+ Cancer), a recommended minimum set of cancer-related data elements...
Lawmakers introduced a bipartisan budget bill on Sunday that includes $1.3 billion in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to continue its Oracle Health EHR modernization (EHRM),...
Maryland-based Frederick Health has completed a MEDITECH EHR integration to elevate its precision medicine program.
The integration of Expanse Genomics within the health systems' MEDITECH Expanse...
Health Level Seven International (HL7), a health data standards-development organization, and The Sequoia Project, a non-profit advocate for nationwide health data interoperability, have announced a...
Regenstrief Institute has issued its semiannual release of LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), which includes updates to support health data exchange for various...
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...
A California-based health information exchange (HIE) has partnered with EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare to help healthcare providers comply with the state’s new health data exchange...
While the majority of physicians report that their EHR helps them provide high-quality care, EHR information overload remains a challenge for clinician burnout, according to a survey from EHR vendor...
United States Reps. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) have introduced new legislation aimed at improving patient matching and promoting interoperability.
The Patient Matching and Transparency...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) told members of the House VA Committee that issues with the Oracle Health EHR have put medication safety at risk for veterans,...