By Hannah Nelson
August 15, 2023 – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced two awards totaling $2 million under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology (LEAP…
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Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
August 02, 2023 – An ONC analysis shows that 83 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals participate in some social determinants of health (SDOH) data collection. Still, challenges related to routine screening data…
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The ONC Health IT Certification Program held its quarterly ONC Health IT Certification Program Developer Roundtable on July 12, 2023. These public meetings are open to all health IT developers, regardless of their participation…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 21, 2023 – ONC has released United States Core Data for Interoperability Version 4 (USCDI v4), which includes 20 additional data elements and a new data class.
USCDI is a health IT standard…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s just-announced United States Core Data for Interoperability Standard, version 4, includes new data elements that advance the Biden-Harris administration’s priorities of advancing equity, diversity and…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
July 18, 2023 – NextGen Healthcare has arrived at a $31 million settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that it overstated its EHR capabilities to gain government certification, a…
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By Hannah Nelson
June 22, 2023 – The Health Innovation Alliance (HIA) has submitted comments on the ONC proposed rule, Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability (HTI-1), which aims to implement provisions of the 21st Century Cures…
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In Part 1, Dr. Don Rucker, the former National Coordinator for Health IT from 2017-2021, framed the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement’s reliance on brokered protocols and page view document architecture as a costly…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 20, 2023 – Only about 46 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals in the United States participate in clinical data registries due to the daunting task of data collection. However, a solution may…
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