AMIA tells ONC not to lose focus on interoperability standards
The American Medical Informatics Association has called on National Coordinator for Health IT Donald Rucker to update the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap and work toward a stronger infrastructure...
View ArticleSeema Verma promises CMS is focusing on interoperability, patient empowerment
If there is one thing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma hopes to accomplish during her tenure it’s this: Empowering patients.During her keynote address at the Office...
View ArticleFederal IT analyst: Federal government shutdown would throw wrench in VA deal...
Trying to predict what federal IT budgeting and expenditures will look like in the year ahead is difficult, if not impossible. So we asked Chris Wiedemann, market intelligence senior analyst at McLean,...
View ArticleCarequality now connects more than half of providers through interoperability...
Carequality, a nationwide interoperability framework that makes possible the exchange of healthcare data between and among networks, reports that more than 1,000 hospitals, 25,000 clinics, and 580,000...
View ArticleAllscripts CEO Paul Black claims the EHR vendor will pull ahead of the pack...
It's been a big year for Allscripts. And not just because of the $185 million acquisition of McKesson Enterprise Information Solutions that closed in October. On the interoperability front, the company...
View ArticleSeeking a unified approach to mobile care collaboration
Organizations struggle to find balance between today’s mobile clinical communications tools and frontline workflow needsHealthcare organizations are undergoing a transformation as desktops are replaced...
View ArticleAllscripts CEO Paul Black talks AI, machine learning and precision medicine
In part one of our two-part Q&A with Allscripts CEO Paul Black on Thursday, he explained how the acquisition this year of McKesson’s health IT business has vastly increased the company's scale...
View ArticleHere's where 'Smart Hospitals' will make big tech investments in the near future
Most U.S. hospitals have a broad portfolio of digital technologies already in place and other innovations in early development or deployment stages, but far fewer qualify as so-called smart...
View ArticleCVS-Aetna merger will make an even bigger giant out of Epic
While early reports about the planned $77 billion merger between CVS and Aetna focused on massive market share in the pharmacy and insurance realms, there is also the promise of a new era in analytics,...
View Article85% of physician practices weathered cyberattacks, disrupting care, risking...
Hospital IT and security executives should know that hackers are by no means finished with slicing and dicing healthcare. Ransomware strains such as WannaCry, Petya and NotPetya were only shots across...
View ArticleFormer ONC head David Blumenthal: 'Free market magic bringing Amazon-style...
The U.S. healthcare system is not merely ripe for disruption, it is practically begging for it, according to former National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal, MD.In a Harvard Business Review...
View ArticleClinicians still struggle to quickly access EHRs at point of care
Computers and workstations on wheels (WoWs) were designed to help clinicians spend less time working from nursing-station desktops and more time at the point of care. The reality, however, is that the...
View ArticleBiggest EHR challenges for 2018: Security, interoperability, clinician burnout
Moving into 2018, hospitals and health systems continue to face many challenges in implementing, maintaining and upgrading their electronic health record systems. These challenges range from technical...
View ArticleFormer ONC chief Karen DeSalvo to join Dell Medical School
Karen DeSalvo, MD, who served as National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2014 to 2016 and U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health from 2014 to 2017, will join the faculty at the Dell...
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Healthcare IT year in review, our best and most popular stories of 2017
Best stories of 2017We look back at 2017 and the stories that struck a chord with readers. The new technology, policy changes, tech advances and sagas. Take a moment to reflect on a busy year. Sign Up...
View ArticleTop 10 Epic EHR stories of 2017
Epic Systems, and its founder and CEO Judy Faulkner were the subjects of well-read news throughout 2017. Here are the top 10 Epic Systems news stories as gauged by our readers' interest:1. Epic CEO...
View ArticleIndian Health Service posts request for information to modernize its VistA...
The Indian Health Service posted a request for information as part of exploratory market research to assess innovations for modernizing its electronic health record system.Right now, IHS uses what it...
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2017: The year interoperability innovation grew legs in the private sector
One of the most interesting things about the list of this year's most read stories on the topic of interoperability is how few of them relate to policy or federal rulemaking. In years past when we've...
View Article#EmpowerHIT Twitter Chat: Healthcare Interoperability - A Look Ahead
As 2017 draws to a close, functional interoperability continues to be a concern for clinicians and healthcare leaders in an effort to move information more seamlessly and with exacting purpose in 2018....
View ArticleBlockchain network-as-a-service platform scores $10 million from AMA-backed...
San Francisco-based startup Akiri on Wednesday launched a blockchain-based network-as-a-service platform for healthcare. It's fueled by $10 million in funding from Health2047, an innovation enterprise...
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