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...
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has stopped all further Oracle Cerner EHR implementations as it conducts a “reset” of its EHR modernization (EHRM) project.
VA officials said that...
While emergency department (ED) nurses described EHR behavioral flags as helpful for clinician safety, improvements are needed to streamline the process from documentation to follow-up, according to a...
Intermountain Health informaticists have developed and implemented a FHIR-based platform that hosts tools to help providers use evidence-based medicine, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI)...
While Veterans Affairs (VA) executives support elements of reform bills that would hold its EHR modernization (EHRM) project to a higher standard, the agency is requesting modifications before fully...
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...
3M Health Information Systems (HIS) has announced that it will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) machine learning (ML) and generative AI services to accelerate the innovation of its ambient clinical...
Clinicians using the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR system experienced a five-hour service disruption on April 17, 2023, according to an internal VA briefing note obtained by FedScoop.
The...
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...
Health IT vendor eClinicalWorks has announced that it is integrating its EHR and practice management tools with ChatGPT, cognitive services, and machine learning models from Azure OpenAI...
The Health Level Seven International (HL7) unveiled its latest healthcare data exchange standard, HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources Release 5 (HL7 FHIR R5), an enhanced and expanded...
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...
EHR issues such as suboptimal design or clinician use can contribute to diagnostic errors in ambulatory settings, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
The study analyzed legal claims...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has renamed The Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications (AEHIA) to reflect an increased focus...
EHR implementation challenges can significantly derail provider satisfaction, according to a KLAS report that found that nearly 50 percent of respondents opened up about room for improvement.
Provider...
Advanced Orthopedics New England has implemented an integrated EHR, medical billing, and patient engagement solution from health IT vendor athenahealth to drive interoperability.
"We lacked the...
Collaborations between payers, healthcare organizations, and health IT vendors can help drive interoperability for improved care outcomes.
The 2023 KLAS Points of Light report celebrates successful...
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) is conducting market research for a follow-on contract to support its $5.5 billion MHS Genesis EHR implementation, according to reporting from FCW.
DHA seeks a team of...
Alaska’s Department of Health (DOH) has awarded the state’s health information exchange (HIE), healtheConnect Alaska, a new contract to expand its interoperability services.
The HIE has...
ONC has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for public comment on proposals to implement certain provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act and make several enhancements to the ONC Health IT...