Massachusetts Taps Health IT to Drive Behavioral Health Care Coordination
The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has awarded health IT vendor PointClickCare Technologies a contract to implement a behavioral health...83% of Acute Care Hospitals Engage in Some SDOH Data Collection
An ONC analysis shows that 83 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals participate in some social determinants of health (SDOH) data collection. Still, challenges related to routine screening data...Health IT Vendor Surescripts Settles Antitrust Lawsuit with FTC
Health IT vendor Surescripts has settled its case with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) without monetary penalties. The FTC filed an antitrust lawsuit against Surescripts in April 2019 for...NYC HIE Partners with Health IT Vendor for SDOH Interoperability
Healthix, a health information exchange (HIE) serving New York City and Long Island, has partnered with health IT vendor Unite Us to drive social determinants of health (SDOH) interoperability. The...Civitas Adds New Members to Drive Collaboration, Interoperability
Civitas Networks for Health, an organization that aims to support interoperability through widespread collaboration, has added 11 new organizations to its membership in the first half of 2023. Civitas...NC Works to Boost Broadband Access to Support Rural HIE Connectivity
Three business units within the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (NCDIT) are collaborating to improve health information exchange (HIE) connectivity for rural healthcare providers...EHR Data Quality Guidelines Needed to Drive Interoperability
Guidelines are needed for EHR data quality assessment (DQA) to improve the efficiency, transparency, comparability, and interoperability of data quality assessment, according to a study published in...HHS OIG Releases Final Rule for Information Blocking Penalties
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a final rule establishing the statutory penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act information blocking requirements. The...HL7, WHO Partner to Drive Global Interoperability Standards Adoption
Standards-development organization Health Level Seven International (HL7) and The World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a Project Collaboration Agreement to support the global adoption of open...Georgia HIE Receives $1M USDA Grant to Improve Rural Healthcare Services
Georgia’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE), the Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN), has received a $1,000,000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to...Ohio HIE Expands Partnership to Drive Interoperability, Data Usability
The Ohio Health Information Partnership (OHIP), which operates CliniSync, a nonprofit health information exchange (HIE), has announced an expanded partnership that aims to improve interoperability and...NIH Publishes HL7 FHIR Guide for Maternal Health Data Exchange
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has published a Health Level Seven International (HL7)...DirectTrust Releases Draft Criteria for RA Health IT Accreditation Programs
DirectTrust, a non-profit healthcare industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of protected health information, has announced a 60-day public comment and...Epic Announces Ambient Clinical Documentation EHR Integration
Epic has expanded its partnership with Nuance Communications, a Microsoft company, through an ambient clinical documentation EHR integration. Nuance's Dragon Ambient eXperience Express (DAX...USVI Governor Signs Agreement for HIE Interoperability Pilot
The Governor of The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) has signed a “Letter of Intent” with CRISP Shared Services to participate in an interoperability pilot program that will lay the...Almost Half of Hospitals Report Instances of Perceived Information Blocking
After the initial enforcement of information blocking rules in April 2021, a considerable 42 percent of hospitals still reported observing what they perceived as information blocking. They reported...HIE Announces Health IT Partnership to Drive EHR Interoperability
HI-BRIDGE HIE has partnered with health IT vendor Innovar to improve EHR interoperability. HI-BRIDGE HIE is an independent regional information exchange established through the National Center for...VA Officials Exploring Health IT, HIE Solutions to Improve Interoperability
Officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are looking to health IT to enhance interoperability with non-VA providers, according to reporting from MeriTalk. At a House Veterans'...Sponsored by Consensus Cloud Solutions