COVID-19

Poor Interoperability Limited Primary Care COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

August 8, 2023 - According to a study published in Health Affairs, poor immunization data interoperability hampered primary care providers’ COVID-19 vaccination efforts. Researchers analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the PRIME Registry, a qualified clinical data registry with more than 2,000 primary care...

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NLP EHR Integration Identifies Acute COVID-19 Cases with 94% Sensitivity

by Hannah Nelson

EHR integration of natural language processing (NLP) models can effectively triage patients reporting positive at-home COVID-19 test results through the patient portal, according to a study published...

Regenstrief Releases LOINC Updates to Support Health Data Exchange

by Hannah Nelson

Regenstrief Institute has issued its semi-annual release of LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), which contains 608 new concepts to support health data exchange across the care...

Maryland HIE Expands Medicaid Redetermination Notification Project

by Hannah Nelson

CRISP, Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), has expanded its Medicaid Redetermination Notification project to all interested providers and Managed Care Organizations...

KLAS: Infection Control Health IT Streamlines Regulatory Reporting

by Hannah Nelson

Healthcare organizations are looking to infection control health IT with strong technical support to help drive meaningful outcomes and optimize regulatory reporting, according to a KLAS report. All...

COVID-19 Sparks Health IT Market Growth in Telehealth EHR Integrations

by Hannah Nelson

The health IT market experienced a rapid increase in telehealth EHR integrations following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, according to a study published in AJMC. Researchers...

NCPDP Launches Facilitator Model to Bolster Public Health Reporting

by Sarai Rodriguez

The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), a CMS Designated Standards Maintenance Organization, has announced the launch of its National Facilitator Model that aims to enable...

Clinician Burnout Reaches New High During COVID-19 After 6-Year Decline

by Hannah Nelson

The clinician burnout rate among US physicians spiked drastically during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic after six years of decline, according to a study published in Mayo Clinic...

How eCR Can Cut Clinician Burden, Advance Public Health Surveillance

by Hannah Nelson

The implementation of electronic case reporting (eCR) at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has helped improve data accuracy for public health surveillance while cutting clinician burden,...

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