The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) told members of the House VA Committee that issues with the Oracle Health EHR have put medication safety at risk for veterans,...
eHealth Exchange is launching an incentive program to drive public health data sharing across its health information exchange (HIE) network.
eHealth Exchange will waive annual fees for three years for...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has designated two additional organizations as Qualified...
The 2024 Best in KLAS Software & Services report has recognized EHR vendor Epic as the top overall software suite, marking the fourteenth consecutive year that the company has earned the...
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have partnered on an initiative that aims to...
Community Health Systems (CHS) has completed data migration to a Google Cloud platform to advance healthcare interoperability and generative AI deployment across its 71 affiliated hospitals.
Google...
Access to outside health data is associated with a reduced risk of code blue events in the emergency department (ED), according to an Epic Research study.
ED clinicians triage patients to determine...
While generative AI shows promise for EHR data summarization, using large language models (LLMs) to summarize clinical data brings risks that are not clearly covered by existing Food and Drug...
Most digital health companies use standards-based application programming interfaces (APIs) to support EHR integration, according to a study published in JAMIA.
The study aimed to capture digital...
Pennsylvania's Department of Human Services has awarded the members of Pennsylvania's Consortium of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and health IT vendor findhelp a contract...
Preventing clinician burnout by increasing EHR efficiency is easier than reducing burnout after it has peaked, according to a KLAS Arch Collaborative report.
The report leverages data collected from...
ONC has released United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Draft Version 5, which includes new data elements aimed at driving health data exchange to reduce health disparities and improve...
Winnebago Comprehensive Healthcare System recently signed an agreement to adopt a cloud-based EHR from health IT vendor MEDITECH.
The Tribal Healthcare System serves 10,000 Native American...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F).
The rule outlines requirements to streamline health...
CommonWell Health Alliance has added health IT vendor ModuleMD to its national health information exchange (HIE) network.
CommonWell has recently experienced significant membership growth,...
Medical scribe vendor DeepScribe has announced several updates to its Epic EHR integration.
DeepScribe's Customization Studio, which allows end-users to build custom models to support...
Interwell Health, a kidney care management company, has added eight practices to its nephrology-focused Epic EHR system in the past year.
The Acumen Epic Connect EHR is an Epic configuration that aims...
Eight ambulatory community healthcare organizations and one rural hospital implemented OCHIN Epic EHR systems in the last quarter of 2023 to enhance care access and streamline clinical workflows.
The...
An ONC final rule scheduled for publication on January 9, 2024, will make several updates to the ONC Health IT Certification Program to advance interoperability.
The “Health Data, Technology,...
Inpatient EHR messaging patterns differ by role, with medicine providers sending and receiving 2.8 and 3.1 times the average daily messaging volume compared to other groups, according to a study...