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ONC releases draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment

March 28, 2024 - ONC has released the draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. The agency developed the draft in partnership with more than 25 federal organizations. The preceding 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan drove progress across government and industry to improve the access, sharing, and use of electronic health...

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Carequality interoperability network celebrates 10 years of HIE

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Carequality, a national interoperability trusted exchange framework for health information exchange (HIE), is celebrating its tenth anniversary since The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit advocate for...

Limited EHR integration impacts use of clinical communication tools

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Adopters of interoperability solutions for clinical communications report various levels of EHR integration, even among the most deeply engaged clients, according to a KLAS report. Most respondents...

EHR vendor MEDITECH integrates generative AI for clinical notes

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EHR vendor MEDITECH has expanded its longstanding partnership with Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft company, by integrating a tool that uses generative AI to draft clinical...

Surescripts reports increase in patient data sharing across HIE network

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The Surescripts 2023 National Progress Report underscores interoperability gains across the health information exchange (HIE) network, including a 10 percent increase in patient data sharing compared...

HEALTHeLINK HIE Launches Dashboard for Community Health

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HEALTHeLINK, a health information exchange (HIE) serving Western New York, has launched a dashboard to support community health. The HEALTHeWNY Dashboard allows users to search data at a county and...

Epic, Oracle Adopt USCDI+ Cancer Standard for Interoperability

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Several EHR vendors, including Epic and Oracle, have agreed to adopt United States Core Data for Interoperability Plus Cancer (USCDI+ Cancer), a recommended minimum set of cancer-related data elements...

The Sequoia Project, HL7 Partner to Advance FHIR Adoption Nationwide

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Health Level Seven International (HL7), a health data standards-development organization, and The Sequoia Project, a non-profit advocate for nationwide health data interoperability, have announced a...

Regenstrief Updates LOINC with 800 Concepts for Health Data Exchange

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Regenstrief Institute has issued its semiannual release of LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), which includes updates to support health data exchange for various...

HIE, NextGen Aid Compliance with Health Data Exchange Framework

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A California-based health information exchange (HIE) has partnered with EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare to help healthcare providers comply with the state’s new health data exchange...

Lawmakers Introduce MATCH IT Act for Patient Matching, Interoperability

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United States Reps. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) have introduced new legislation aimed at improving patient matching and promoting interoperability. The Patient Matching and Transparency...

eHealth Exchange Announces Public Health Data Sharing Incentives

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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...

HHS, ONC Designate Additional QHINs for TEFCA Health Data Exchange

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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...

ONC, SAMHSA Launch Initiative for Behavioral Health IT Interoperability

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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 Taps Google Cloud Migration, Gen AI

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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...

Epic Study Finds Health Data Exchange Lowers Risk of Code Blue

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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...

73% of Digital Health Companies Use Standards-Based EHR APIs

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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 HIEs, Health IT Vendor Partner on SDOH Referral Tool

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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...

ONC Publishes Draft USCDI v5 to Drive Health Data Interoperability

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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...

CommonWell Health Alliance Adds Health IT Vendor to HIE Network

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CommonWell Health Alliance has added health IT vendor ModuleMD to its national health information exchange (HIE) network. CommonWell has recently experienced significant membership growth,...

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