The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) should expand the data required in the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) to improve public health...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) will maintain its focus on mitigating COVID-19 through health IT while also prioritizing interoperability, National Coordinator for Health IT,...
Pew Charitable Trusts, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) recommended the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
An EHR extraction system could be the key for translating unstructured text about patient travel history into actionable health data, according to a study published in JMIR Publications.
Without an...
A local health information exchange (HIE) helped Veterans Affairs (VA) clinicians identify COVID-19 patients diagnosed in the community and facilitate ambulatory COVID-19 symptom follow-up, according...
Catholic Health System in Western New York leveraged the Epic EHR COVID-19 vaccine solution to distribute roughly 12,000 vaccines to New York healthcare workers and other individuals in the 1A...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded funding to two regional health information exchanges in New York, Bronx RHIO and HEALTHeLINK, to enhance patient data exchange between HIEs...
COVID-19 has exposed the cracks in healthcare systems across the country. In Indiana, Regenstrief Institute and its partners had to make some critical patient data exchange adaptations and...
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it has integrated a COVID-19 vaccine EHR solution into its new EHR system, MHS GENESIS, to help clinicians identify and register patients.
DoD collaborated...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded funding to the Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) and HASA, a regional health information exchange (HIE) in Texas, to improve patient...
Tower Health in Pennsylvania has officially launched Epic Systems EHR across the entirety of its health system when it recently went live at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in...
Public health reporting challenges during COVID-19 are a direct result of EHR inefficiencies. Although health IT specialists cannot re-invent the EHR at this time, these challenges could be mitigated...
The Biden administration could require enhanced patient data sharing, update EHR requirements, and increase API access to improve public health sharing and give experts the tools to mitigate the spread...
Extracting household patient EHR data proved to be as effective at tracking transmission as COVID-19 contact tracing, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.
Because...
Regenstrief Institute announced it would develop and add COVID-19 standardized codes to the Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) dataset to enhance mapping services and upgrade...
Communication between providers is crucial when it comes to patient data exchange, which is why health information exchanges across the country are always aiming to enhance provider-to-provider...
Once integrated into the EHR, an immunization information system (IIS) helps improve COVID-19 vaccination distribution, administration, documentation, and monitorization by gathering and storing...
The healthcare industry was flipped upside down during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient data exchange and public health reporting were issues before the pandemic, and these two areas of...
Cerner has announced 175 COVID-19 vaccination sites have leveraged its Mass Vaccination EHR solution to help clinicians identify, register, and vaccinate patients.
When COVID-19 began to spread in...
Epic Systems has announced 100 COVID-19 vaccination sites across the country have implemented its EHR software, resulting in roughly 500,000 daily vaccinations across traditional clinical settings and...
