Integration & Interoperability News

AWS, Interoperability Institute Partner on Virtual Innovation Center

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The Interoperability Institute (IOI), a non-profit formed by Michigan’s statewide health information exchange (HIE), has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch...

FHIR Accelerator Announces Digitized Clinical Research Protocol Project

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HL7 FHIR Accelerator Vulcan and standards development organization CDISC have announced a project to deliver an electronic exchange standard for the ICH M11 Clinical electronic Structured Harmonised...

CalHHS Announces $47M in Grants for Data Exchange Framework

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The California Health & Human Services Agency (CalHHS) has launched a $47 million grant program to support health and social service organizations in implementing the state Data Exchange Framework...

ONC Releases Draft USCDI+ Quality Data Element List for Comment

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ONC recently published the draft USCDI+ Quality data element list for public comment. Through USCDI+ Quality, ONC seeks to extend the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) standard to...

51 Percent of Hospitals Plan to Participate in TEFCA HIE Framework

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More than half of hospitals are aware of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and plan to participate in the HIE framework, according to ONC analysis of American Hospital...

Health System Completes Patient-Reported Outcome EHR Integration

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A new quality initiative at University of Miami Health System (UHealth) aims to enhance orthopaedic care through EHR integration of patient-reported outcome measures. Orthopaedic patients who have...

Idaho Statewide HIE Changes Leadership Amidst Bankruptcy

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Idaho’s statewide health information exchange (HIE) has changed leadership, according to reporting from The Idaho Capital Sun. Hans Kastensmith, managing partner of consulting group Capitol...

AMA, HL7 Partner on FHIR CPT Integration to Drive Interoperability

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Health IT developers using Health Level Seven International (HL7) interoperability standards and guides will have increased access to American Medical Association (AMA) medical codes and...

Health IT Vendor Integrates Generative AI Tool into Epic EHR

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Health IT vendor Suki has integrated its generative AI-based voice assistant with Epic EHR software using Epic’s ambient APIs. Suki recently announced new features to its voice assistant tool....

MedAllies Advances as the Seventh QHIN Candidate Under TEFCA

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MedAllies has secured approval to proceed in its bid to become a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), marking it as only the...

Health IT Vendor Announces MEDITECH Expanse EHR Integration

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Health IT vendor Luma Health has announced the integration of its Patient Success platform with the MEDITECH Expanse EHR. As an initial member of the MEDITECH Alliance program, Luma Health...

ACMI Symposium Outlines Public Health Interoperability Strategies

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At the 2022 American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) symposium, experts discussed strategies to improve the public health interoperability infrastructure. An article published in JAMIA...

MI HIE Teams Up with AI/AN Tribe for Bidirectional Interoperability

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The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) recently announced a significant step towards advancing bidirectional interoperability by adding the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP) to...

Health IT Vendor Releases API for Interoperability With 3 National HIEs

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Health IT vendor Particle Health has announced a new offering that provides an interoperability gateway to three national health information exchanges (HIEs) through a single application...

GAO: Small, Rural Hospital HIE Use Lags Larger Counterparts

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While electronic health information exchange (HIE) has increased in recent years, use among small and rural hospitals is lower than that of other hospitals, according to a new GAO report. The report...

HIE Consortium Releases Health Data Utility Maturity Model

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The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI), a collection of five nonprofit health information exchange (HIE) organizations, has released a health data utility (HDU) maturity...

Large Health IT Networks Unveil Plans to Become QHIN Under TEFCA

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As the Sequoia project expects to open the TEFCA QHIN application on October 3, several organizations have announced their intentions to apply. TEFCA, published earlier by ONC, outlines a...

Microsoft, Epic Expand Partnership with OpenAI EHR Integration

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Mcrosoft and EHR vendor Epic have announced an Azure OpenAI Service EHR integration to streamline clinical workflows. The announcement expands the vendors’ long-standing partnership, which...

CHIME Renames AEHIA to Reflect Expanded Focus on Health Data Analytics

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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has renamed The Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications (AEHIA) to reflect an increased focus...