Google has updated its Passes application programming interface (API) to provide patients with a secure way to store, access, and share COVID-19 vaccination and testing data on Android...
Executives are driving health IT innovation after COVID-19 revealed the importance of digital capabilities for business resiliency; 93 percent of healthcare executives said that their organization is...
ONC’s Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) recently held an expert panel hearing to investigate interoperability and public health data system performance during...
Surescripts Clinical Direct Messaging has played a vital role in the country’s COVID-19 vaccination effort by boosting interoperability between pharmacies and primary care providers.
Since...
To meet the needs of post-COVID-19 care delivery, health IT executives are accelerating digital health transformation through technology infrastructure development, comprehensive health IT training,...
With rising COVID-19 vaccination rates, Cerner announced that it will conduct business through a hybrid workforce that will allow most associates to work in-office or from home.
Most employees will...
EHR optimization allowed for a model to successfully predict an initial decline in births associated with COVID-19 at a university healthcare system, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open...
In the midst of COVID-19, EHR developers have rapidly integrated an automated electronic case reporting solution into their products to promote public health efforts, according to an ONC blog...
Epic Systems’ employees will be required to work in-person at the Verona, Wisconsin headquarters at least part time starting in July as the Madison and Dane county COVID-19 restrictions come to...
Healthcare organizations are investing in health IT resources and EHR optimization after a year of COVID-19 financial turbulence, according to the 9th annual Health IT Industry Outlook survey conducted...
California’s My Turn COVID-19 vaccination program has enlisted new assistance from an application programming interface (API) to improve EHR data exchange among providers.
California’s...
Nearly 150 hospitals implemented Epic Systems EHR throughout 2020, which further contributed to Epic’s stronghold on the EHR implementation market share, according to a recent KLAS...
Employees at Keck Medicine of USC, a health system that includes three hospitals and over 40 outpatient facilities in the Los Angeles area, were forced to handle the COVID-19 vaccination wave through...
At Mary Washington Hospital, getting a vaccine appointment is as easy as getting a table at your favorite restaurant, thanks to an innovative EHR optimization process.
CORRECTION: This article is...
Health IT professionals developed a COVID-19 mortality tool for EHR integration within a month, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association...
To aid Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services (IEMS) with an influx of COVID-19 patients, researchers from Regenstrief Institute utilized a global open-source EHR, OpenMRS, to create an emergency EHR...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers increased interoperability tool adoption to boost healthcare management, price transparency, and specialty medications, according to a Surescripts...
The most prominent EHR and health IT leaders across the country said a crisis, such as COVID-19, accelerated trends that were already playing out, ultimately leading to improved patient care.
“I...
eClinicalWorks announced it has developed and integrated a COVID-19 vaccine EHR solution, Vaccine Administration Management Solution (VAMS), into workflows across 29 states to help clinicians...
Epic Systems and MEDITECH both stood above the rest and exceeded expectations as EHR vendors throughout COVID-19, according to a recent KLAS report.
This report follows up on a similar one published...
