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 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 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'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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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'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...
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...