During a virtual media briefing this week, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association outlined some of the comments it plans to send the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT about its draft…
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Common data models solve many challenges of standardizing electronic health record (EHR) data but are unable to semantically integrate all of the resources needed for deep phenotyping. Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry…
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A new report by KLAS delves into many of the questions posed to clinicians in the Arch Collaborative’s User Experience and Trainer Quality Benchmark surveys to help further demystify the specific…
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By Hannah Nelson
May 18, 2023 – Executives for Health Innovation (EHI), a nonprofit health IT advocacy group, will wind down operations in the coming months.
Founded in 2001, EHI brought together thousands of health and technology…
By Sarai Rodriguez
May 18, 2023 – MedAllies has secured approval to proceed in its bid to become a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), marking it as…
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A colleague clued me in about an article that was published in JAMA Network Open last week, “Perspectives on the Intersection of Electronic Health Records and Health Care Team Communication, Function, and Well-being.” The…
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The healthcare industry has dozens of startups promising to alleviate clinicians’ documentation workload, mainly either by improving workflows in the electronic health record or using automation to offload some of the burden.
Redwood City-based Suki…
By Hannah Nelson
May 17, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has renegotiated its $10 billion EHR contract with Oracle Cerner to include stronger performance metrics and larger financial penalties, according to reporting from…
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has arrived at a new electronic health record deal with Oracle, following five years marked by rollout challenges and performance problems that have impacted veterans’ care – resulting in reported harm…
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The following is a guest article by Dr. Peter Hahn, MD, MBA, Dr. Lance Owens, DO, and Joshua Wilda, MPA, CHCIO
Over the past two years, clinical and technical leaders at the University…
