What You Should Know:
– The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a new initiative to increase resources dedicated to curbing the practice of “information blocking“.
– Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr….
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Epic Achieves Historic Interoperability Breakthrough
Epic Systems reached a groundbreaking interoperability milestone this Monday, announcing that over 1,000 hospitals and thousands of clinics are now actively exchanging health data through its TEFCA Qualified Health Information…
Epic Systems announced on Monday it has reached what it’s calling milestone in interoperability: a significant and growing number of hospitals and clinics exchanging health data across its TEFCA Qualified Health Information Network. WHY IT…
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Immediate Test Results Spark Refresh Behavior
The 21st Century Cures Act policy granting patients immediate access to their test results has revealed an unexpected consequence: anxious portal refreshing. According to a new JAMA Network Open…
Critical Updates For Healthcare Organizations
The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy has released comprehensive updates to the Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides for 2025. These essential documents provide healthcare organizations with structured…
The Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy has released an update of guidance documents that healthcare organizations use to assess and optimize the safety of their electronic health record systems. The new 2025 Safety Assurance Factors…
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Top News
A federal court upholds an injunction that prohibits senior care EHR vendor PointClickCare (PCC) from blocking Real Time Medical Systems (RTMS) from its systems.
The injunction, which was granted in July 2024, found…
The Current State of Healthcare Data Privacy
The Sequoia Project’s Privacy and Consent Workgroup has conducted an extensive review of existing consent models and frameworks. Their goal: achieving “computable consent” – an automated system where…
The Sequoia Project’s Privacy and Consent Workgroup said it reviewed existing consent models and frameworks and other factors that may help providers achieve a state of computable consent – where computers exchange patient information…
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In a letter to Dr. Michelle Tarver, newly appointed director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, a division of the Food and Drug Administration, seven members of Congress have asked the agency…
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