By Hannah Nelson April 12, 2023 – 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 grown significantly recently,…
By Hannah Nelson April 11, 2023 – 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…
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By Hannah Nelson April 11, 2023 – Over 40 percent of hospitals observed practices they perceived to constitute information blocking in 2021, according to an ONC survey of 2,092 nonfederal acute care hospitals.
Researchers fielded the…
By Hannah Nelson April 10, 2023 – FDA’s Sentinel Innovation Center has partnered with John Snow Labs and Cerner Enviza, an Oracle company, to create AI tools to extract critical information from EHR notes for…
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By Hannah Nelson April 10, 2023 – Civitas Networks for Health, an organization that aims to support interoperability through widespread collaboration, has released a Health Data Utility (HDU) Framework developed in partnership with the Maryland…
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By Hannah Nelson April 07, 2023 – The American Dental Association (ADA) is conducting a nationwide survey of dental offices to understand the use of EHR and electronic dental records (EDR) systems and associated interoperability…
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By Hannah Nelson April 06, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has extended the pause on its EHR modernization (EHRM) project rollout, according to reporting from Federal News Network.
Laura Ruzick, director of Veterans…
By Sarai Rodriguez April 06, 2023 – As healthcare organizations increasingly begin EHR implementations to consolidate patient records, improve care experiences, and enhance patient engagement, they seek vendors offering tailored, scalable solutions. This is highlighted…
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By Hannah Nelson April 05, 2023 – Contexture, the largest health information organization in the western US, has announced plans to transition to a unified health information exchange (HIE) platform to enhance EHR interoperability for…
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By Hannah Nelson April 05, 2023 – A restricted EHR configuration limited to one patient record open at a time did not impact clinician efficiency, despite perceptions that an unrestricted EHR was more efficient, according…
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