Interoperability

DirectTrust Releases New Health IT Accreditation Criteria for Review

by Hannah Nelson

DirectTrust, a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information, has posted new versions of program...

UPMC Moves to Single Epic EHR to Boost Health Data Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

UPMC will transfer six million patient medical records to a single Epic EHR by mid-2026 to drive health data interoperability, according to reporting from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The healthcare...

Intermountain Announces Epic EHR Implementation for Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Intermountain Health has announced that it is implementing an Epic EHR across the organization to drive interoperability and improve the patient experience. The enterprise EHR implementation is set to...

South Dakota DOH Taps Health IT for Community Information Exchange

by Hannah Nelson

South Dakota's Department of Health (DOH) has awarded a contract to health IT vendor findhelp to build a statewide community information exchange (CIE). The platform will connect South...

Pediatric Provider Taps MEDITECH Expanse EHR to Drive Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Bethany Children's Health Center in Bethany, Oklahoma, will implement the MEDITECH Expanse EHR to support interoperability across its 160-bed hospital, outpatient clinics, and rehabilitation...

ONC Awards The Sequoia Project Contract to Continue TEFCA RCE Role

by Hannah Nelson

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded The Sequoia Project a five-year contract to continue serving as the recognized coordinating entity (RCE) for...

FQHC Taps eClinicalWorks Health IT to Boost Population Health

by Hannah Nelson

A federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Connecticut has implementedpopulation health solutions from health IT vendor eClinicalWorks to enhance care quality. In particular, the Connecticut...

How HIE Tools Can Bridge the SDOH Data Interoperability Gap

by Hannah Nelson

While the HITECH Act of 2009 spurred widespread EHR adoption across healthcare organizations, national health information exchange (HIE) investments have largely left out community-based referral organizations, limiting social determinants...

Michigan HIE Taps Health IT to Advance Interoperability Use Cases

by Hannah Nelson

Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) has partnered with health IT vendor Smile Digital Health to drive health information exchange (HIE) interoperability across the state. As...

ONC Awards $2M for Health IT Interoperability Projects

by Hannah Nelson

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced two awards totaling $2 million under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology...

Georgia HIE Receives Grant for SDOH Interoperability Pilot Program

by Hannah Nelson

Aetna, a CVS Health company, has awarded Georgia’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE) $200,000 for a pilot project to drive social determinants of health (SDOH)...

FQHC Taps eClinicalWorks EHR to Drive Patient Engagement

by Hannah Nelson

Midland Community Healthcare Services (MCHS), a federally qualified health care center (FQHC) in Texas, recently implemented an eClinicalWorks EHR to drive interoperability and patient engagement. The...

Legislators Introduce Act for Behavioral Health IT Adoption

by Hannah Nelson

Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Calif.), Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), and Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) have introduced an act to support behavioral health...

Poor Interoperability Limited Primary Care COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

by Hannah Nelson

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...

Massachusetts Taps Health IT to Drive Behavioral Health Care Coordination

by Hannah Nelson

The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has awarded health IT vendor PointClickCare Technologies a contract to implement a behavioral health...

83% of Acute Care Hospitals Engage in Some SDOH Data Collection

by Sarai Rodriguez

An ONC analysis shows that 83 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals participate in some social determinants of health (SDOH) data collection. Still, challenges related to routine screening data...

The Role of MPI Tools in Health Data Interoperability, Patient Matching

by Hannah Nelson

As health data interoperability grows nationwide, accurate patient matching is more important than ever. Patient matching is the practice of connecting disparate patient records across medical providers or facilities. Growing health...

ONC Adds 20 New Data Elements to USCDI v4 to Drive Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

ONC has released United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 (USCDI v4), which includes 20 additional data elements and a new data class. USCDI is a health IT standard that sets the...

Oklahoma Proposes Opt-Out Provision in Updated Statewide HIE Rules

by Sarai Rodriguez

Oklahoma's attempt to implement a statewide health information exchange (HIE) has been met with resistance. Responding to concerns, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board (OHCA) has approved...

NYC HIE Partners with Health IT Vendor for SDOH Interoperability

by Hannah Nelson

Healthix, a health information exchange (HIE) serving New York City and Long Island, has partnered with health IT vendor Unite Us to drive social determinants of health (SDOH) interoperability. The...