ONC’s 8th annual update of the Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) Reference Edition includes new specifications related to ePrescribing and public health reporting, according to a...
This year’s health IT trends will include increased adoption of specialty prescribing tools and other solutions to mitigate clinician burnout, according to statements from Surescripts officials...
Regenstrief Institute supports privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL), which protects patients’ identities while allowing researchers to access health data from EHRs and other sources for clinical research.
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While EHRs were once noted as a top contributor to clinician burnout, nurses’ chaotic work environments and after-hours workloads are driving an increase in burnout in the midst of COVID-19,...
The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) in Indiana used EHR data to address health disparities in COVID-19 infection, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health...
Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) has announced that its data sharing network is close to covering the entire state of Indiana, according to reporting from The Hamilton County Reporter.
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Guthrie, a health system serving areas of New York and Pennsylvania, is leveraging an Epic EHR integration to deliver a novel treatment for high-risk COVID-19 patients.
Scientists create monoclonal...
Healthcare stakeholders leveraged a learning health system model of clinical decision support to develop and implement agile COVID-19 clinical guidelines, according to a Health Affairs blog post.
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives’ (CHIME) Digital Health Most Wired survey awarded 10 healthcare organizations the highest level of certification for their commitment...
EHR vendor Cerner has announced a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its US employees, according to reporting from The Kansas City Star.
US employees are required to be fully vaccinated by December...
The Regenstrief Institute has announced the addition of 400 new terms to the LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes) dataset in efforts to boost health data exchange...
Just prior to COVID-19, 71 percent of hospitals experienced public health reporting challenges, according to a new ONC data brief that highlights flaws in the national data exchange...
Four travel nurses hired by a California hospital to help address the ongoing surge of COVID-19 strains quit days after they were hired due to inadequate EHR use training and onboarding issues,...
As the digital health transformation continues, direct secure messaging has proven to be a valuable tool to support various data exchange efforts.
Non-profit trade alliance DirectTrust developed the...
Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) personnel had to manually enter COVID-19 case reporting data at the height of the pandemic due to antiquated public health data exchange infrastructure,...
COVID-19 highlighted weaknesses in national data exchange infrastructure for public health reporting; primary care extensions could help the nation tackle COVID-19 and prepare for future emergencies,...
While almost half of pharmacists and two-thirds of prescribers reported an increase in health IT use over the past 18 months, further interoperability efforts are needed to address clinician burden,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated health IT adoption and physician understanding of new interoperability rules, according to results from a survey conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of Google...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing issue of clinician burnout related to health IT use, according to a national survey from the Physicians Foundation.
Editor’s Note: The...
In a letter sent to staff, EHR vendor Epic Systems announced that all US-based employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 1, according to reporting from Madison, Wisconsin’s...
