Interoperability

Civitas Adds New Members to Drive Collaboration, Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Civitas Networks for Health, an organization that aims to support interoperability through widespread collaboration, has added 11 new organizations to its membership in the first half of 2023. Civitas...

How a Patient Record ‘Snapshot’ is Driving HIE Data Access

by Hannah Nelson

While health information exchange (HIE) can help drive patient-centered care, data access must be clinician-centered to realize the full benefits of interoperability. Clinicians often must sign out of their EHR system into a separate HIE...

NC Works to Boost Broadband Access to Support Rural HIE Connectivity

by Hannah Nelson

Three business units within the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (NCDIT) are collaborating to improve health information exchange (HIE) connectivity for rural healthcare providers...

EHR Data Quality Guidelines Needed to Drive Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Guidelines are needed for EHR data quality assessment (DQA) to improve the efficiency, transparency, comparability, and interoperability of data quality assessment, according to a study published in...

HL7, WHO Partner to Drive Global Interoperability Standards Adoption

by Hannah Nelson

Standards-development organization Health Level Seven International (HL7) and The World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a Project Collaboration Agreement to support the global adoption of open...

FQHC Implements eClinicalWorks EHR to Enhance Clinical Documentation

by Hannah Nelson

Central Virginia Health Services, Inc. (CVHS), a federally qualified health center (FQHC), has upgraded to the latest eClinicalWorks’ EHR system, V12, to enhance clinical documentation...

Georgia HIE Receives $1M USDA Grant to Improve Rural Healthcare Services

by Hannah Nelson

Georgia’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), the Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN), has received a $1,000,000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to...

Ohio HIE Expands Partnership to Drive Interoperability, Data Usability

by Hannah Nelson

The Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP), which operates CliniSync, a nonprofit health information exchange (HIE), has announced an expanded partnership that aims to improve interoperability and...

DirectTrust Releases Draft Criteria for RA Health IT Accreditation Programs

by Hannah Nelson

DirectTrust, a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information, has announced a 60-day public comment and...

Oklahoma Governor Rejects Proposed Rule Changes for Statewide HIE

by Hannah Nelson

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has rejected proposed rule changes by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) regarding the implementation of a statewide health information exchange (HIE), according to...

USVI Governor Signs Agreement for HIE Interoperability Pilot

by Hannah Nelson

The Governor of The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) has signed a “Letter of Intent” with CRISP Shared Services to participate in an interoperability pilot program that will lay the...

HIA Calls ONC to Reconsider Health IT Requirements of Proposed Rule

by Hannah Nelson

The Health Innovation Alliance (HIA) has submitted comments on the ONC proposed rule, Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1), which aims to implement provisions of the 21st Century Cures...

HIE Announces Health IT Partnership to Drive EHR Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

HI-BRIDGE HIE has partnered with health IT vendor Innovar to improve EHR interoperability. HI-BRIDGE HIE is an independent regional information exchange established through the National Center for...

VA Officials Exploring Health IT, HIE Solutions to Improve Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are looking to health IT to enhance interoperability with non-VA providers, according to reporting from MeriTalk. At a House Veterans'...

Mercy Health Introduces Community Data Hub for Public Health

by Hannah Nelson

Mercy Health has released a Community Health Data Hub to provide public health stakeholders, community organizations, and residents access to county-level health data, according to reporting from The...

Public Health Reporting, Data Sharing Nearly Ubiquitous in Hospitals

by Sarai Rodriguez

Public health reporting by acute care hospitals has seen significant improvement, reaching a 96 percent participation rate in 2022. This is an increase from the previous year, according to the 2022...

AWS, Interoperability Institute Partner on Virtual Innovation Center

by Hannah Nelson

The Interoperability Institute (IOI), a non-profit formed by Michigan’s statewide health information exchange (HIE), has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch...

FHIR Accelerator Announces Digitized Clinical Research Protocol Project

by Hannah Nelson

HL7 FHIR Accelerator Vulcan and standards development organization CDISC have announced a project to deliver an electronic exchange standard for the ICH M11 Clinical electronic Structured Harmonised...

CalHHS Announces $47M in Grants for Data Exchange Framework

by Hannah Nelson

The California Health & Human Services Agency (CalHHS) has launched a $47 million grant program to support health and social service organizations in implementing the state Data Exchange Framework...