The Bellevue Hospital (TBH), an Ohio-based not-for-profit community hospital, went live with a MEDITECH Expanse EHR, which will unify patient records across all its care locations.
The...
In a June 1st message to Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center staff, Teresa Boyd, VA’s Northwest regional director, said that the hospital wouldn’t need to cut its workforce to address an...
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...
Health IT vendors can help drive strong customer adoption of clinical communication platforms, according to a KLAS report.
PerfectServe Telmediq and Stryker Vocera Platform have made the...
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...
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 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...
Electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) to assess quality of cancer diagnosis could help improve diagnostic performance, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Researchers developed and...
A federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Indiana is investing in a new business-focused EHR optimization for its eClinicalWorks tool, with the goal of improving EHR usability and...
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...
At a recent hearing, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a senior member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committees, questioned VA deputy secretary nominee...
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’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...
Health information exchange (HIE) may mitigate information discontinuity present in fragmented readmissions, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.
Fragmented readmissions,...
EHR interventions to change default dosing settings for opioid prescriptions may be feasible to implement in various surgical populations, especially if the new settings are evidence-based, according...
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...
Contexture, a health information exchange (HIE) for Arizona and Colorado, is integrating Verato's healthcare master data management (hMDM) solution to aid in patient matching across its network of...
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) has demanded that Denis McDonough, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) secretary, commit to preventing cuts to staff or services at medical centers in Spokane and...
UNC Health has announced that it will participate as an early adopter of generative AI tools through an Epic EHR integration.
In April, Epic and Microsoft announced a partnership to...
EHR purchasing continued steadily through 2022, with small hospital EHR implementations driving market growth, according to a KLAS report.
The report examines trends in EHR purchases in the United...