The Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) is expanding its effort to address the opioid crisis with $1.4 million in grant funding to support PDMP EHR integration throughout New...
NextGen Healthcare has signed a definitive agreement to acquire fellow health IT vendor TSI Healthcare, a privately held value-added reseller located in North Carolina, for an upfront amount...
CMS has published a request for information (RFI) on establishing a National Directory of Healthcare Providers & Services (NDH) that could serve as a data hub for healthcare provider, facility, and...
Data standard group SNOMED International has issued the first production release of its International Patient Summary (IPS) Terminology to improve clinical data interoperability for non-SNOMED...
The California Health and Human Services Agency (CalHHS) has launched an online portal allowing healthcare stakeholders to sign on to California’s first-ever HHS Data Sharing Agreement ahead of a...
The HI-BRIDGE Health Information Exchange (HIE) has added admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) alerts to its platform to improve the quality of healthcare data delivered to providers and...
Pew Charitable Trusts is working to improve health IT infrastructure for data sharing between healthcare providers and state public health agencies.
“As COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, the...
The Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) has partnered with health IT vendor PointClickCare Technologies and C3 Health Information Exchange (HIE) to expand the Emergency Department Encounter...
DirectTrust and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) have announced a merger agreement to advance accreditation programs for health data exchange.
DirectTrust is a...
Eight social care platform vendors have formed a Community of Practice (CoP) hosted by Michigan’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE) that aims to improve...
Healthcare organizations should revise their data sharing strategies to protect patient privacy with the Supreme Court’s recent decision to end constitutional protections for abortion, according...
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) has called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to delay the No Surprises Act data exchange requirements.
The No Surprises Act...
DirectTrust facilitated more than 208 million direct secure messages during the third quarter of 2022, an increase of 9 percent compared to the same period last year.
However, the number of healthcare...
The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), in coordination with the National Security Council, issued a Request for Information (RFI) on October 26, seeking input on optimizing...
Adding biometric data to the EHR can enhance patient matching, but it presents unique data security challenges, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts report
Patient health data is often spread across...
The Office of National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) recently launched a national Gravity Project Pilots Affinity Group through a partnership with Health Level Seven International (HL7) and...
Interoperability of sex/gender EHR elements could help support research to improve population health, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Researchers examined recommendations from the National...
Policies in the CMS 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) final rule aim to advance public health data exchange, according to an ONC HealthITBuzz blog post.
The 2023 IPPS rule expands the...
In a recent ONC provider-focused workshop, participants noted training, technical capacity, and interoperability as the biggest challenges with electronic health information (EHI) sharing.
More than...
The Sequoia Project, selected by ONC as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to support the implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), has released the...
