Riverwood Healthcare Center in Minnesota will begin an Epic EHR implementation in January 2024 to drive the patient experience and streamline internal processes.
The EHR implementation will give...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has appointed five new members to the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC).
“Widespread access, exchange, and use of electronic...
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a new data strategy, which includes the expansion of the role of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has finalized a rule to support health IT interoperability and artificial intelligence (AI) transparency.
The Health...
While 61 percent of healthcare organizations have invested resources into meeting the interoperability requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act, only 36 percent report having the necessary data...
The Regenstrief Foundation has awarded LOINC and Health Data Standards at Regenstrief Institute a $4.4 million grant to support a global initiative to standardize social determinants of health (SDOH)...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), has announced that national health data exchange governed by...
After several months of development and testing, the new ONC USCDI+ platform has gone live, providing a single platform for organizing and building out various USCDI+ datasets.
The USCDI+ initiative...
An Eastern Washington veteran and his wife have filed a lawsuit against the federal government and the vendors behind the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR system, alleging that system defects...
EHR vendor athenahealth has announced new generative AI-based capabilities that aim to alleviate administrative burdens and enhance patient care delivery.
The features will be available through...
MedStar Health Research Institute, a 2020 ONC Leading Edge Acceleration Project (LEAP) in Health IT awardee, has developed new Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) platforms to support EHR...
Epic has partnered with health IT vendor Qualtrics on an EHR integration that will bring patient experience data into clinical workflows.
Integrating patient experience data from Qualtrics directly...
St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System in Savannah, Georgia, has partnered with EHR vendor MEDITECH on an enterprise EHR implementation to drive interoperability.
The health system recently deployed...
Primary care physicians (PCPs) practicing in community health centers spend less time using the EHR than other PCPs, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
The cross-sectional study...
The Department of Defense (DoD) has nearly completed its Oracle Health EHR implementation, according to reporting from GovCIO Media & Research.
"We're virtually complete with system...
Healthcare executives are thinking about more than AI, according to a recent Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) poll that found improving EHR usability is medical group leaders' top health...
While the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Oracle Health EHR has not experienced a total outage in over six months, end-users continue to report system issues, according to reporting from Federal...
eHealth Exchange, a health information exchange (HIE) connecting federal agencies and healthcare providers, has announced an incentive plan to accelerate HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources...
Several healthcare organizations have recently selected the CommunityWorks EHR from Oracle Health to enhance operational workflows.
The platform aims to support the clinical, financial, and...
Healthcare organizations have largely shifted their attention from data capture and storage capabilities to improving outcomes through health data usage, according to The Digital Health Most Wired...