SoutheastHEALTH is set to join Mercy's multi-hospital system through a recently signed definitive agreement, a move that will allow the health system to leverage Mercy's Epic EHR system.
This...
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...
The House has passed appropriations legislation that would allocate $1.9 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR modernization program for fiscal year 2024 if passed into law, according...
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 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...
Primary Care Joliet, an Illinois-based healthcare organization, has initiated an eClinicalWorks EHR implementation.
This recent move aims to streamline administrative workflows, thereby reducing costs...
Perceived EHR work stress was significantly associated with clinician burnout across all specialties, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Researchers invited attending physicians at UC San Diego...
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced AWS HealthScribe, a generative AI-based service to support automatic clinical documentation.
With AWS HealthScribe, health IT providers can use a single...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has deployed a private 5G network from Verizon at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System to improve patient care delivery.
The deployment is part of a broader...
While the COVID-19 pandemic increased patient EHR message volume across specialties, women physicians experienced a significantly greater message increase, according to a study published in JAMIA....
ONC has released United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 (USCDI v4), which includes 20 additional data elements and a new data class.
USCDI is a health IT standard that sets the...
Universal Health Services plans to implement Oracle Health's EHR within its behavioral health facilities, enhancing patient care across its network, the organization announced.
UHS acute care...
EHR integration of natural language processing (NLP) models can effectively triage patients reporting positive at-home COVID-19 test results through the patient portal, according to a study published...
Oklahoma's attempt to implement a statewide health information exchange (HIE) has been met with resistance. Responding to concerns, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board (OHCA) has approved...
NextGen Healthcare has arrived at a $31 million settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that it overstated its EHR capabilities to gain government certification, a...
Despite EHR coding changes enacted in 2021 aimed at reducing documentation burden, an Epic Research report has found that the average EHR clinical note length has continued to increase.
Researchers...
After surpassing a network population of 200 million, the CommonWell Health Alliance is now sharing electronic health information for a large portion of the US population-based Census...
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 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...
In an effort to build better semantic interoperability of health information, the Sequoia Project and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have created Data Usability Taking...