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ONC releases draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment

March 28, 2024 - ONC has released the draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. The agency developed the draft in partnership with more than 25 federal organizations. The preceding 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan drove progress across government and industry to improve the access, sharing, and use of electronic health...


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EHR vendor MEDITECH integrates generative AI for clinical notes

by Hannah Nelson

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...

Care orgs tap Microsoft generative AI for clinical documentation

by Hannah Nelson

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...

Epic Taps Ambient Intelligence to Streamline Clinical Documentation

by Hannah Nelson

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,...

Community Health Systems Taps Google Cloud Migration, Gen AI

by Hannah Nelson

Community Health Systems (CHS) has completed data migration to a Google Cloud platform to advance healthcare interoperability and generative AI deployment across its 71 affiliated hospitals. Google...

Safeguards Needed for Generative AI EHR Data Summarization

by Hannah Nelson

While generative AI shows promise for EHR data summarization, using large language models (LLMs) to summarize clinical data brings risks that are not clearly covered by existing Food and Drug...

AI Medical Scribe Deepens Epic EHR Integration to Enhance Workflows

by Hannah Nelson

Medical scribe vendor DeepScribe has announced several updates to its Epic EHR integration. DeepScribe's Customization Studio, which allows end-users to build custom models to support...

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

by Hannah Nelson

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

by Hannah Nelson

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...

ONC Finalizes Rule to Drive Health IT Interoperability, AI Transparency

by Hannah Nelson

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has finalized a rule to support health IT interoperability and artificial intelligence (AI) transparency. The Health...

New Tools From EHR Vendor athenahealth Harness Generative AI

by Hannah Nelson

EHR vendor athenahealth has announced new generative AI-based capabilities that aim to alleviate administrative burdens and enhance patient care delivery. The features will be available through...

How 4 EHR Vendors Are Leveraging Generative AI in Clinical Workflows

by Hannah Nelson

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...

EHR Usability Outshines AI as Top Health IT Priority of Healthcare Execs

by Hannah Nelson

Healthcare executives are thinking about more than AI, according to a recent Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) poll that found improving EHR usability is medical group leaders' top health...

EHR Vendor eClinicalWorks Taps AI Tool for Clinical Documentation

by Hannah Nelson

EHR vendor eClinicalWorks has announced an integration with Sunoh.ai, an AI-powered ambient listening technology that aims to streamline clinical documentation. The technology allows providers to use...

Google Cloud Announces Generative AI Search Capabilities for Healthcare

by Hannah Nelson

Google Cloud has announced new capabilities in Vertex AI Search for healthcare and life sciences organizations that support generative AI-powered search on a range of data, including clinical...

EHR Vendor NextGen Releases AI Solution to Boost Provider Efficiency

by Hannah Nelson

EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare has announced the availability of an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that aims to boost provider efficiency by summarizing patient-provider conversations in...

Mercy Taps Microsoft Azure OpenAI for Clinician, Patient Experience

by Hannah Nelson

Mercy has partnered with Microsoft to use the Azure OpenAI Service and other digital technologies to give clinicians more time to care for patients and improve the patient experience. “Because...

Nuance Releases Generative AI Copilot for Clinical Documentation

by Hannah Nelson

Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft Company, has announced the general availability of Dragon Ambient eXperience (DAX) Copilot, which leverages conversational, ambient, and generative AI to...

MEDITECH EHR Integration Taps Generative AI for Clinical Notes

by Hannah Nelson

MEDITECH has partnered with health IT vendor Suki on a generative AI EHR integration set to streamline clinical documentation. The EHR vendor will integrate Suki Assistant into MEDITECH Expanse....

Ochsner to Pilot Epic EHR Integration for Generative AI Patient Messaging

by Hannah Nelson

Ochsner Health is launching an Epic EHR integration that uses generative AI to draft messages to patients. A small group of Ochsner clinicians will test the new Epic feature, which aims to speed up...