The Sequoia Project, selected by the ONC as the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) to support the implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), has released...
Referential patient matching algorithms demonstrated greater accuracy than the traditional probabilistic approach, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Probabilistic software implements a weighted...
The Strengthening the Technical Advancement & Readiness of Public Health via Health Information Exchange Program (The STAR HIE Program) has made considerable improvements in its effort to support...
While advances in technology have helped improve data exchange, the healthcare industry continues to lag on the interoperability front, according to a Health Innovation Alliance (HIA) report that...
DirectTrust supported more than 191 million direct secure messages during the first quarter of 2022, representing an 11 percent increase over the same quarter in 2021.
The nonprofit healthcare...
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Health Level Seven International (HL7) announced a two-year partnership that aims to enhance interoperability across the healthcare...
The White House announced last week that it has asked health IT vendors, including Cerner, for their support in providing COVID therapeutics within the EHR.
Incorporating this information would...
The App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (CHI) provided comments to the ONC on its Draft (v3) US Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) and its ongoing USCDI expansion process (draft...
Health Level Seven International (HL7) announced that ONC's FHIR at Scale Taskforce (FAST) will transition into an HL7 FHIR Accelerator.
ONC originally founded the FAST project to define a common...
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, nonprofit healthcare industry alliance DirectTrust recognized a special class of Interoperability Heroes.
“It’s been an exciting decade for...
Two New York-based health information exchanges (HIEs), Healthix and Hixny, joined forces to release a Smart on FHIR application that aims to drive interoperability and workflow efficiencies for New...
The Indian Health Service (IHS) has begun a multi-year health IT modernization initiative to replace its homegrown EHR platform with a private vendor solution.
The IHS is an agency of the Department...
CAQH CORE, the author of national operating rules for the HIPAA-covered administrative transactions, recently released new operating rules to enhance information exchange and healthcare operations...
The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit health IT data standards development organization, announced that it has posted new versions of program criteria for...
2022 is a pivotal year in the digital health transformation, according to Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT.
At the virtual ONC annual meeting on April 13, Tripathi noted that over...
San Diego Health Connect, a recipient of an ONC Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health IT (LEAP) program award, developed a scalable consent framework to improve patients’ ability to convey...
The National Association of ACOs (NAACOS) has launched a new task force to develop recommendations for ACO digital quality measurement.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) aims...
Health IT vendor Surescripts has introduced new patient matching features through its master patient index that are expected to enhance the patient and provider experience.
The vendor's master...
Epic Systems announced that it has formed a partnership with precision oncology company Guardant Health to support an Epic EHR integration to enhance patient access to cancer screening.
The Guardant...
UC San Francisco (UCSF), in collaboration with the Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative (QLHC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has deployed an EHR integration that aims to streamline...
