• ONC releases draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment

    March 28, 2024 - ONC has released the draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. The agency developed the draft in partnership with more than 25 federal organizations. The preceding 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan drove progress across government and industry to improve the access, sharing, and use of electronic health...

  • Carequality interoperability network celebrates 10 years of HIE

    March 27, 2024 - Carequality, a national interoperability trusted exchange framework for health information exchange (HIE), is celebrating its tenth anniversary since The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit advocate for nationwide HIE, first launched the initiative. Carequality became an independent nonprofit organization five years ago. Today, the framework supports the...

  • Limited EHR integration impacts use of clinical communication tools

    March 26, 2024 - Adopters of interoperability solutions for clinical communications report various levels of EHR integration, even among the most deeply engaged clients, according to a KLAS report. Most respondents indicated at least one key interoperability challenge with their communications tools that especially affects their use cases and outcomes. Some deep...

  • OIG: VA EHR system issues have led to patient harm, one patient death

    March 25, 2024 - A system error in the new Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR contributed to the accidental overdose of a patient in 2022, according to a VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report. The patient died approximately seven weeks after a missed appointment at the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus.   The OIG conducted an internal...


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ONC releases draft Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment

ONC has released the draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. The agency developed the draft in partnership with more than 25 federal organizations. The preceding...

Carequality interoperability network celebrates 10 years of HIE

Carequality, a national interoperability trusted exchange framework for health information exchange (HIE), is celebrating its tenth anniversary since The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit advocate for...

Limited EHR integration impacts use of clinical communication tools

Adopters of interoperability solutions for clinical communications report various levels of EHR integration, even among the most deeply engaged clients, according to a KLAS report. Most respondents...

OIG: VA EHR system issues have led to patient harm, one patient death

A system error in the new Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR contributed to the accidental overdose of a patient in 2022, according to a VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report. The patient...

KLAS: Epic leads EHR mindshare for independent ambulatory care orgs

Epic and athenahealth have the greatest EHR mindshare for potential purchasing decisions across independent ambulatory practices, according to the 2024 KLAS Ambulatory EHR/PM Mindshare report. To...

Arkansas Heart deploys Oracle Health EHR to enhance interoperability

Arkansas Heart Hospital is implementing Oracle Health EHR and patient accounting solutions across its network of ambulatory clinics and two hospitals to drive interoperability. In combination with the...

EHR vendor MEDITECH integrates generative AI for clinical notes

EHR vendor MEDITECH has expanded its longstanding partnership with Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft company, by integrating a tool that uses generative AI to draft clinical...

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