Integration & Interoperability News

EHR Vendor Cerner Develops National eCR Public Health Solution

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The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) recently named EHR vendor Cerner the hospital category winner of its 2021 Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) Now COVID-19 FHIR App Challenge for...

ONC Awards Funding to SDOH Data Exchange, Interoperability Projects

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ONC has announced the 2021 Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health IT awardees for their interoperability projects that aim to enhance social determinants of health (SDOH) data exchange and...

Increased Health IT Clinician Burden Calls for Greater Interoperability

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While almost half of pharmacists and two-thirds of prescribers reported an increase in health IT use over the past 18 months, further interoperability efforts are needed to address clinician burden,...

VA Awards Five Imaging Data Exchange Contracts to Boost Interoperability

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded five new contracts with Medicom that are set to boost interoperability for health data exchange. The contract awards will allow Veterans Integrated...

How ePrescribing Interoperability Solutions Mitigate Clinician Burden

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Andrew Mellin, MD, MBA, a VP and chief medical information officer at Surescripts, wants healthcare to get rid of its fax machines. The archaic technology, which he called a universal inbox, should...

HIEs Advance Interoperability for Improved Care Coordination, Data Analytics

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Health information exchanges (HIEs) advance interoperability and provide clinicians with greater access to patient health data for care coordination, according to an op-ed published in the Journal of...

Cerner EHR Integration Leverages Health IT to Identify SDOH Factors

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Cerner has announced a new EHR integration, Cerner Determinants of Health, that leverages health IT to identify social determinants of health that contribute to health...

Payers Convene for CMS Interoperability Rule, ADT Infrastructure

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The United States QHIN (USQHIN) has launched a payer advisory workgroup (PAW) to guide the National ADT Hub Network (NAHN) in the creation of a national interoperability infrastructure for admission,...

GoodRx, Surescripts Partner for Drug Price Transparency EHR Integration

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GoodRx has partnered with Surescripts to create a clinical decision support EHR integration that enhances prescription drug price transparency. The Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit EHR...

Health Org Taps Epic Community Connect for EHR Interoperability

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Woman’s Hospital, a specialty healthcare organization focusing specifically on women’s healthcare, has entered contract negotiations with New Orleans-based LCMC Health to gain access to an...

CMS Interoperability Rule, ADT, Fuels Direct Secure Messaging Growth

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DirectTrust has reported a significant uptick in direct secure messaging which could help healthcare organization compliance with the admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) messaging standard...

CMS Interoperability Rule Compliance, ADT Messaging Hinge on HIEs

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Connecting to a health information exchange (HIE) may be the best way for provider organizations to comply with new CMS interoperability regulations that require hospitals to send patient event...

CO, AZ HIEs Announce Name of Regional HIE Set to Boost Interoperability

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Two health information exchanges (HIE) in Colorado and Arizona have announced Contexture as the name of a regional HIE set to enhance interoperability and boost patient data sharing across the...

Surescripts Event Notification EHR Integration Targets Coordination

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Surescripts has announced the launch of new health IT solutions that aim to improve patient follow up, medication adherence, and care coordination through electronic health record (EHR) event...

ID Health Information Exchange Data Migration Set to Boost Interoperability

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Idaho Health Data Exchange (IHDE), Idaho’s designated statewide health information exchange (HIE), is migrating its legacy data to a next generation, scalable platform in efforts to boost...

The Sequoia Project Posts Draft TEFCA Interoperability Infrastructure

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The Sequoia Project, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) for implementation of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common...

Patients Support Greater EHR Data Exchange, Access to Health Information

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While most patients want greater access to personal health information and support enhanced provider-to-provider data sharing, federal health IT policy may be hindering EHR data exchange, according to...

DirectTrust Launches Draft Health IT Standard, Instant Messaging Platform

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The DirectTrust consensus body for Trusted Instant Messaging Plus (TIM+) has launched a draft standard to finalize the process of becoming an American National Standards Institute...

Google Cloud Health IT Tool Set to Boost Interoperability, Streamline Data

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Google Cloud has announced a private preview of its Healthcare Data Engine, a health IT solution that builds on the core capabilities of the Google Cloud Healthcare API and streamlines data from...