Meditech to launch CommonWell data-sharing capabilities in 2018
Meditech, which first joined the CommonWell Health Alliance in 2015, will begin offering its interoperability capabilities to clients early 2018, the company announced.First launched in 2013 by...
View ArticleDirectTrust touts nearly 100,000 provider users
DirectTrust is seeing solid growth in the number of healthcare providers using Direct protocols to share information, an increase in new addresses and is logging more transactions than ever.DirectTrust...
View ArticleSurescripts national record locator service adds 14 health systems
More than a dozen new health systems have signed on with Surescripts' National Record Locator Service, giving their clinical staff easy visibility into electronic health records for nearly 230 million...
View ArticleAMIA throws its support behind proposed interoperability framework
The American Medical Informatics Association has told the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT that it supports the agency’s draft framework for measuring the use of interoperability...
View ArticleExperian Health, MongoDB partner on universal patient ID manager
Experian Health has partnered with MongoDB, developer of non-relational databases, for its Universal Identity Manager platform.The technology – which aggregates data from disparate databases, in...
View ArticleOpioid commission calls on Trump for state, federal PDMP interoperability
The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis -- led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie -- called on President Donald Trump to make federal and state prescription drug...
View ArticleAneesh Chopra on the future of FHIR: It's starting to come together
FHIR signals what may be the future of healthcare, and certainly what many wish that to be: An IT ecosystem where systems within an organization and between organizations can easily share data in a...
View ArticleBlockchain eyed for potential use cases in revenue cycle
It may be at the peak of the hype cycle right now, but blockchain technology has been enticing stakeholders in all areas of healthcare with its potential for a new and secure approach to data...
View ArticleAPIs: A remedy for integration, innovation barriers
The frustrations associated with sharing information have burdened the healthcare industry’s digitization efforts for many years. With application programming interfaces (APIs) taking hold, however,...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks touts interoperability milestone through Carequality framework
The embattled electronic health records and health IT vendor eClinicalWorks has exchanged in 12 months more than two million documents via the eClinicalWorks EHR through the Carequality...
View ArticleRegenstrief wins $1.7 million AHRQ grant to tackle the elusive patient ID puzzle
Regenstrief Institute won a new five-year, $1.7 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for development and testing of automated patient identification approaches....
View ArticleMicrosoft unveils open source Coco blockchain framework for healthcare, other...
Microsoft on Thursday announced Coco, an open source framework it said will enable users to build enterprise-class blockchain networks.Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, wrote in a blog post that...
View ArticleUsing both Direct and FHIR standards could improve data exchange
As HL7's FHIR standard continues to catch on across healthcare, there are ways it can be leveraged to work in tandem with the Direct protocol for better information exchange, a new report from...
View ArticleFHIR: igniting digital innovation in the healthcare industry
For all too many years, the healthcare industry’s attempts to innovate have run into the proverbial brick wall. Even though the industry has moved en masse to electronic medical records (EMRs), the...
View ArticleImprivata joins CommonWell Health Alliance to push interoperability
Imprivata, a health IT security company, has joined the CommonWell Health Alliance, a not-for-profit trade association whose aim is to create universal access to health data via a person-centered,...
View ArticleMIT projects explore machine learning applications to improve EHRs
Two new studies from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory shed light on ways machine learning can improve electronic health records and predictive analytics to help physicians...
View ArticleEHR vendor CliniComp sues government over no-bid VA contract with Cerner
San Diego-based electronic health record vendor CliniComp has filed a bid protest with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the Department of Veterans Affairs for allegedly awarding Cerner a...
View ArticleKaren DeSalvo lays out vision for 'Public Health 3.0,' focuses on social...
Improving social determinants of health is a must-do for value-based care models that seek to improve and maintain health instead of treating illness, said former National Coordinator for Health IT...
View ArticleMassTech grants EHR vendors thousands to improve child behavioral health data...
The Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) at MassTech has awarded nearly $200,000 to four electronic health record vendors to build pathways for Massachusetts behavioral health providers to...
View ArticleEHR Association weighs in on MACRA, 21st Century Cures, asks for fewer delays
Officials from Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and two dozen other electronic health record vendors called for timeliness and clarity on requirements for MACRA’s Quality Payment Program in comments submitted...
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