Integration & Interoperability News

Surescripts EHR Integration to Up Care Coordination, Specialty Meds

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Biopharma company UBC has partnered with Surescripts to leverage the vendor’s Specialty Patient Enrollment EHR integration for streamlined care coordination.  The EHR integration, which is...

Regional Health Information Exchanges Expand for Interoperability

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Equality Health has partnered with three of the five regional health information exchanges (HIEs) in Texas to advance interoperability and care coordination.  The partnerships with Greater...

Access To Personal Health Information Draws Data Security Concerns

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As the digital health transformation progresses, many patients are pleased with increased access to personal health information. However, data security and privacy remains a concern for some, according...

Direct Messaging Boosts Interoperability For COVID-19 Vaccination

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Surescripts Clinical Direct Messaging has played a vital role in the country’s COVID-19 vaccination effort by boosting interoperability between pharmacies and primary care providers. Since...

Vendor Launches Ambulatory Health IT Tool for Care Coordination

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Health vendor CarePort has launched a health IT solution that aims to improve care coordination for ambulatory providers. As hospitals increasingly rely on ambulatory providers to support whole...

Hospital Boosts Patient Data Access with Epic MyChart Patient Portal

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Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital has announced an EHR integration with the Epic MyChart patient portal that aims to enhance patient data access.  The Orlando Health MyChart patient portal...

CommonWell Adds Vendor to Boost Interoperability, Data Exchange

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Health IT vendor Seqster has joined CommonWell Health Alliance to promote interoperability and patient data exchange. The vendor’s clients will now be able to exchange health data with over...

Health IT Platform Enhances Medical Image Sharing, EHR Integration

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FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA, Inc, has launched a health IT platform designed to enhance medical image sharing and EHR integration in endoscopy suites. The scalable health IT solution is set to...

OIG Audit Reveals Inaccurate VHA EHR Integration of Non-VA Records

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Veterans Health Administration (VHA) staff do not adequately comply with VHA policies regarding the integration of non-VA medical records into a veteran’s EHR, according to a VA Office of...

How SDOH Data Interoperability, Standards Advance Health Equity

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Social determinants of health data interoperability is key in the pursuit of health equity, according to a new post from ONC’s Health IT Buzz blog written by Jawanna Henry and Samantha...

Premier Nudges CMS to Boost Patient Data Exchange, Interoperability

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CMS should establish cross-continuum data standards, automate the prior authorization process, and integrate administrative and clinical data to advance interoperability and improve patient data...

AZ HIE Integrates Advance Directives to Inform Clinical Decision Making

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Health Current, Arizona's statewide health information exchange (HIE), has announced that it will integrate advance directives to provide seamless access to patients’...

DoD Reaches 30% Rollout for MHS GENESIS Cerner EHR Integration

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The Department of Defense (DoD) is on track to complete its Cerner EHR integration by September 2023 with the rollout nearly a third complete, according to The Business of Federal Technology. On a...

States Receive Data Exchange Grants for Health Equity, Public Health

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Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH) announced a new nationwide program that aims to advance health equity through data exchange partnerships between communities and states. DASH, led by the Illinois...

EHR Vendor Cerner Links with Apple For Patient Health Data Exchange

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EHR vendor Cerner Corporation has partnered with Apple on a new feature that aims to promote patient empowerment by allowing patients to share personal health data with their families and providers,...

HIE Promotes Accreditation, Workforce Development for Interoperability

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Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN), a nonprofit HIE, and Velatura Public Benefit Corporation announced that for every referral it makes to Trusted Dynamic Registration &...

How Artificial Intelligence EHR Integration Improved Patient Safety

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A Pennsylvania health system improved patient safety and cut costs through the integration of a health IT solution with medication transcription and translation artificial intelligence (AI)...

$7B Health IT Merger Aims to Improve Nationwide Interoperability

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Datavant and Ciox Health have signed a definitive agreement to merge the two health IT companies in a transaction valued at $7.0 billion set to improve interoperability across the healthcare...

Health System Connects to Statewide HIE For Interoperability Boost

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Parkview Health, a 10-hospital health system in northeast Indiana, has joined the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) to support statewide, data-driven public health efforts powered by...

EHR Vendor MEDITECH Signs onto Apple Health for EHR Data Exchange

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EHR vendor MEDITECH announced a new feature that aims to promote patient empowerment through patient data exchange with providers via Apple’s Health app. The new feature builds on Health Records...