Integration & Interoperability News

ONC Outlines Health IT Interoperability Progress in Report to Congress

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A new ONC report to Congress outlines the significant impact of the 21st Century Cures Act on health IT interoperability. As of 2021, nearly all non-federal acute care hospitals (96 percent) and 4 in...

Puerto Rico HIE Announces Plans to Participate in Prospective TEFCA QHIN

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The Puerto Rico Health Information Exchange (PRHIE) has announced its intention to participate in TEFCA through Health Gorilla's anticipated Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Health...

ONC, CMS Partner on Proposed Rules for HIE Interoperability

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Two new proposed rules from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aim to advance health information exchange (HIE) interoperability and streamline prior authorization processes. The...

Memorial Healthcare System Taps Virtual Care Epic EHR Integration

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Memorial Healthcare System has announced an EHR integration partnership with virtual care company KeyCare to provide patients with a high-quality virtual care experience. Memorial Healthcare...

The Sequoia Project Adds DoD, EHR Vendor Officials to Board

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The Sequoia Project, a non-profit for nationwide health interoperability, has added four new members to its board of directors, including representatives from EHR vendor OneRecord and the Department of...

ONC Toolkit Outlines Foundational Elements of SDOH Information Exchange

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ONC has released a Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Information Exchange Toolkit to support communities working toward achieving health equity through SDOH data sharing. The national SDOH data...

DirectTrust Reports Over 72M Monthly Direct Secure Messages in 2022

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Healthcare industry alliance DirectTrust facilitated an average of over 72 million direct secure messages monthly during Q4 2022, marking a continued growth trend in the past year. DirectTrust enables...

Veradigm, HealthVerity Uses Registry Data for Chronic Disease Research

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Health IT vendor Veradigm, formerly Allscripts, announced a collaboration with healthcare data ecosystem HealthVerity that will leverage registry data to advance chronic disease research. The...

95% of Certified Health IT Developers Met ONC Cures Act Deadline

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More than 95 percent of certified health IT developers met the Cures Act Final Rule compliance deadline to provide customers with new technology, according to an ONC HealthITBuzz blog post. The Cures...

1,400 Healthcare Orgs Join CalHHS Data Exchange Framework

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Over 1,400 organizations have joined the California Health and Human Services (CalHHS) Data Exchange Framework (DxF), the first-ever statewide data sharing agreement of its kind in California. The...

HealtheLINK HIE Reports Uptick in Health Data Exchange in 2022

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HEALTHeLINK, the health information exchange (HIE) for Western New York, worked on a total of 83 different projects focused on improving health data exchange in 2022 alone, according to the...

PCP Use of Community HIE Cuts Likelihood of Hospital Reutilization

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Increased primary care physician (PCP) use of community HIE may dramatically improve patient outcomes, according to a study published in Annals of Family Medicine. Researchers used Paso del Norte...

HIA Calls on Congress for Healthcare Interoperability, ePA Legislation

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With the commencement of the 118th Congress, Healthcare Innovation Alliance (HIA) urged the House and Senate to take action on several issues to improve care delivery, including healthcare...

88% of Hospitals Use Health Data Exchange, ONC Interoperability Report Finds

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Interoperability continues to improve, with 88 percent of hospitals participating in electronic health data exchange as of 2021, according to an ONC data brief based on the AHA Information...

NCPDP Awards $100K in Grant Funding for EHR Data Quality Research

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The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), a CMS Designated Standards Maintenance Organization, is offering a research grant of more than $100,000 to the University of...

Regenstrief Institute Framework Addresses Patient Matching Accuracy

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Regenstrief Institute researchers recently announced the launch of an eight-point framework that aims to improve patient matching accuracy through algorithm evaluations. Connecting patent records...