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TEFCA facilitated the exchange of 7.8 million documents in its first year, but additional efforts are needed to expand use cases across public health and payer-provider exchange. Continue Reading
Michigan Health Information Network has launched a pilot project that enables real-time health data exchange between emergency medical services and hospitals. Continue Reading
EHR implementation can improve the patient experience by consolidating multiple systems and enhancing access to personal health data through a single portal. Continue Reading
While sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collection informs patient-centered care, it also fuels research efforts to address LGBTQ+ care disparities. Continue Reading
Over 90% of healthcare workers feel optimistic about the promise of generative AI in healthcare to alleviate administrative burdens, according to a new survey. Continue Reading
Enforcement of the information blocking rule is underway, with a final rule from HHS and CMS outlining significant penalties for healthcare providers. Continue Reading
EHR implementation is no small feat, but being aware of common challenges can help prepare healthcare organizations for successful health IT deployments. Continue Reading
Successful EHR implementation requires meticulous planning, strong communication and effective training to navigate complexities and ensure a smooth transition. Continue Reading
While California's Data Exchange Framework (DxF) aims to enhance statewide data sharing, success hinges on integrating community-based organizations and focusing on specific use cases. Continue Reading
Ambient AI technology is helping Ochsner Health improve patient-provider relationships by allowing clinicians to spend consultation time looking at their patients rather than a computer screen. Continue Reading
Key considerations for selecting an EHR vendor include assessing practice needs, conducting a thorough market scan and evaluating the total cost of ownership. Continue Reading
Generative AI in clinical documentation can ease EHR burdens and enhance patient communication, but issues with accuracy necessitate careful provider review. Continue Reading
A specialty clinic in California is advancing LGBTQ care through a digital tool that allows patients to self-report sensitive information, including SOGI data. Continue Reading
UW Health nurses are piloting a generative AI tool that drafts responses to patient messages to improve clinical efficiency during ongoing staffing shortages. Continue Reading
Industry stakeholders are working with DirectTrust to create a data standard for secure cloud fax to address health data exchange barriers and enhance data security. Continue Reading
While home health agencies face distinct health IT challenges, collaboration and innovation are crucial for overcoming these barriers and delivering high-quality care. Continue Reading
Providence is using FHIR standards to streamline payer-provider data exchange, enhancing quality reporting and reimbursement while reducing administrative burdens. Continue Reading
While TEFCA has the potential to enhance payer-provider interoperability, its success hinges on addressing trust issues and navigating complexities in data exchange. Continue Reading
Integrated EHR offerings with revenue cycle management (RCM) technology and AI features can help streamline operations for independent physician practices. Continue Reading
Generative AI in healthcare offers promise for tasks such as clinical documentation, but clear regulations and standards are needed to maximize benefits and minimize risks. Continue Reading
A nonprofit HIE in California is offering a free ADT notification service to boost compliance with the state's health data exchange framework and improve care coordination. Continue Reading
The Sequoia Project's Taking Root Initiative is looking to address health data usability issues across the industry, ranging from human factors to technical challenges. Continue Reading
The Regenstrief Foundation has committed $4.4 million toward an expanded partnership with the HL7 Gravity Project to create SDOH data standards. Continue Reading
With constrained budgets, hospitals are tackling rural health IT hurdles through cloud-based EHRs, workforce training, grants and free cybersecurity resources. Continue Reading
By providing specialty-specific EHR training, using e-learning modules, and encouraging ongoing EHR education, healthcare organizations can help promote clinician satisfaction. Continue Reading
While barriers to the use of APIs in health data exchange exist, there are several promising use cases for healthcare, including SDOH interoperability. Continue Reading
With increasing instances of extreme weather, health informatics researchers are looking to leverage HIE to support public health in the context of climate change. Continue Reading
Generative AI is generating a lot of buzz across the healthcare industry, with EHR vendors introducing tools to streamline clinical workflows and administrative tasks. Continue Reading
A Regenstrief study that connected dental and EHR data has sparked further clinical research into a potential biomarker for Sjögren's, a chronic autoimmune disorder. Continue Reading
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is the first medical school to leverage Lyceum, an Epic EHR training platform designed for first-year medical students. Continue Reading
EHR data can aid clinical informatics research through streamlined clinical trial recruitment, public health surveillance, and health IT analytics. Continue Reading
While clinical ambient intelligence could mitigate clinician burnout, organizations must leverage an implementation strategy that promotes interconnectivity, according to a Forrester analyst. Continue Reading
As the digital health transformation progresses, cloud-based EHR platforms could hold the key to health IT scalability for provider organizations. Continue Reading
Medical specialty societies are well-suited to drive consensus on health data standards, as they include a diverse sampling of representatives from the field. Continue Reading
Connecting to an HIE has helped a behavioral health center in Connecticut drive patient-centered care through real-time alerts and streamlined data access. Continue Reading
Employing user-centered design practices can help healthcare organizations pinpoint clinical workflow challenges to improve EHR usability. Continue Reading
According to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), health data interoperability has four levels: foundational, structural, semantic, and organizational. Continue Reading
Enforcement of the ONC interoperability rule has begun, with civil monetary penalties of up to $1 million per information blocking violation. Continue Reading
NCQA recently removed gendered language from several HEDIS measures to drive care access and health equity for LGBTQ+ individuals. Continue Reading
Master patient index (MPI) tools aim to help healthcare organizations improve health data interoperability and patient matching for care coordination. Continue Reading
A query-based HIE solution helped an FQHC improve cervical cancer screening rates by 23 percent while streamlining care coordination workflows. Continue Reading
Regenstrief researchers are working with local public health partners to share EHR data for chronic disease surveillance through the state HIE. Continue Reading
Qualitative EHR use research can help researchers gather insight on what to target for quantitative analysis and better inform EHR innovation. Continue Reading
OCHIN recently received a $15M grant from the state of California to train 275 individuals to join the health IT workforce across community health centers. Continue Reading
A partnership between DCFS and the Arkansas statewide HIE is helping improve care coordination for children in foster care through automated reports. Continue Reading
With use cases across clinical care, research, health information exchange (HIE), and public health, HL7 FHIR APIs span the healthcare innovation spectrum. Continue Reading
The TEFCA QHIN applicants' health information networks collectively process billions of annual transactions across all fifty states. Continue Reading
An EHR integration at UCSF that merges medical and dental records is set to enhance patient-centered care delivery and foster innovation. Continue Reading
EHR integrations can help healthcare organizations conduct patient outreach to support value-based care delivery and improve population health. Continue Reading
Reshaping the nation's HIEs as state-designated health data utilities (HUDs) offers distinct advantages for public health, according to HIE officials. Continue Reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can automate administrative tasks to help address clinician burnout and give providers more time to deliver patient-centered care. Continue Reading
Health IT vendor executives say that healthcare organizations will look to EHR optimization and clinical automation in 2023 to address clinician burnout. Continue Reading
HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability (FHIR) accelerators aim to advance health data exchange for various use cases, like genomic data sharing. Continue Reading
Adding a social determinants of health (SDOH) screening EHR integration has tripled SDOH documentation within patient records at Memorial Primary Care. Continue Reading
New state legislation aims to enhance interoperability through a statewide HIE that will include clinical and social determinants of health (SDOH) data. Continue Reading
A New York FQHC adopted an AI-based EHR documentation service from eClinicalWorks to alleviate clinician burnout after its on-site scribe service went virtual due to COVID-19. Continue Reading
Barriers to API adoption for digital health companies include a lack of realistic clinical testing data and EHR data fragmentation. Continue Reading
ACOs often work with many EHR vendors, so eCQM reporting requires major investment in data aggregation tools. Continue Reading
Implementing clinical decision support (CDS) alerts for opioid stewardship helped Fort Healthcare improve patient safety by increasing the rate of naloxone prescriptions. Continue Reading
The initiative aims to drive health equity by incentivizing IHS facilities to participate in the HIE with a 2.5 percent increase over the standard Medicaid reimbursement rate. Continue Reading
The Ciitizen Cures Gateway aims to help HIEs and other data providers support patient data access and comply with information blocking regulations. Continue Reading
Six social care referral vendors have signed a pledge with Michigan’s HIE to support SDOH data exchange and an interoperable social care environment. Continue Reading
Regenstrief research scientists have piloted a tool for nursing homes that uses EHR data to retrospectively flag avoidable hospital transfers to support quality improvement. Continue Reading
Epic is the first EHR vendor to announce its intention to participate in the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) as a QHIN. Continue Reading
While traditional patient care is a bread-and-butter HIE use case, public health organizations can also benefit from HIE, according to an Indiana HIE executive. Continue Reading
Fresenius Medical Care automated COVID-19 public health data reporting to drive patient-centered care and mitigate clinician burden, saving each clinic 8 hours per week. Continue Reading
Patient ID Now coalition members noted that a national patient ID standard could enhance population health through improved patient matching. Continue Reading
As providers look toward value-based care delivery, health information exchanges (HIEs) can support care coordination and population health management. Continue Reading
EHR vendor athenahealth released product enhancements to promote health equity for transgender and non-binary patients. Continue Reading
Per the ONC interoperability rule, healthcare providers must share all electronic health information (EHI) by October 6, 2022. Continue Reading
Care coordination, advance care planning, and even dental HIE are critical use cases for how health data interoperability can support patient-centered care delivery. Continue Reading
According to the Gravity Project, data standards adoption is a foundational element of SDOH data exchange across social services and healthcare providers. Continue Reading
Female physicians spend a higher percentage of their EHR documentation time outside of work hours, highlighting clinician burnout concerns. Continue Reading
Adopting health data standards in a consistent and comprehensive manner will be key to enabling meaningful healthcare interoperability. Continue Reading
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) helps ensure EHR data is accurate for a variety of use cases, such as quality reporting and patient care delivery. Continue Reading
ClinicalConnect Health Information Exchange (CCHIE) knows interoperability is important not only for providers, but for payers, too. Continue Reading
Alliance Chicago has announced a partnership with a health IT vendor which is set to improve clinical workflows and boost clinician satisfaction. Continue Reading
A MEDITECH EHR implementation helped a health system earn a spot on the CHIME Digital Health Most Wired list for its data sharing abilities. Continue Reading
NIH is leveraging Regenstrief’s privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) technology for COVID-19 clinical research. Continue Reading
Some providers across the ACO increased their healthcare quality score by over 20 percent just two weeks into the health IT implementation. Continue Reading
Using technology from athenahealth, a primary care company serving employer customers nationwide has been able to scale a cloud-based EHR implementation. Continue Reading
EHR vendor Cerner and MU Healthcare’s partnership fosters collaboration between clinicians and health IT professionals for care quality improvements. Continue Reading
MEDITECH’s proprietary EHR implementation service aims to enhance customer-vendor communication and support advanced health IT applications. Continue Reading
Leveraging EHR data for clinical research is promising, but a lack of data standards present challenges for research usability. Continue Reading
A population health tool from EHR vendor athenahealth leverages data analytics to highlight care gaps and support care coordination. Continue Reading
Ambient clinical intelligence could help relieve clinician burden and streamline EHR clinical documentation processes through machine learning. Continue Reading
Data standards for sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI) EHR documentation could help boost care quality for gender-marginalized patients. Continue Reading
Providers and health IT professionals across the country are demanding health information exchange, but developing a sufficient infrastructure is challenging. Continue Reading
Inappropriate EHR alerts, cognitive support matters, and objective encounters are a few of the top EHR usability challenges that health IT professionals encounter. Continue Reading
A lack of standardization can lead to gaps and inaccuracies in EHR data collection, resulting in inequitable care delivery. But providers are finding ways to overcome this challenge to deliver more equitable care to patients. Continue Reading
Health information exchanges across the country are boosting interoperability by connecting at the state, regional, and national levels. Continue Reading
Addressing social determinant requires integration of this information into the EHR. Otherwise, providers will not be able to use it for clinical decision-making. Continue Reading
Being able to adapt and optimize new EHR technology is crucial to the future of EHR usability. Continue Reading
Performing an EHR usability assessment can support effective EHR optimization projects for healthcare organizations. Continue Reading
Success in value-based care hinges on support for providers, long-term quality improvement, and alignment of resources and goals. Continue Reading
Healthcare data many think is protected by HIPAA may not be. With wearable health technology, some experts are concerned by what's not covered. Continue Reading