By Sarai Rodriguez April 25, 2023 – Race data collection is critical to understanding and addressing racial and ethnic health disparities, stated researchers from the United States Census.
However, there is significant variation in the completeness…
By Hannah Nelson April 25, 2023 – Health IT vendor Particle Health has announced a new offering that provides an interoperability gateway to three national health information exchanges (HIEs) through a single application programming interface (API).
The…
By Hannah Nelson April 24, 2023 – 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…
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By Hannah Nelson April 24, 2023 – 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…
By Hannah Nelson April 21, 2023 – 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…
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By Hannah Nelson April 21, 2023 – 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) apps for clinical decision…
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By Hannah Nelson April 20, 2023 – 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…
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By Hannah Nelson April 20, 2023 – 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 model.
An HDU…
By Hannah Nelson April 19, 2023 – 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…
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By Hannah Nelson April 19, 2023 – 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…
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