ONC awards $2.7M in new funding for interoperability innovation initiatives
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT this week announced another batch of four awardees under its Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology program.WHY IT...
View ArticleSPECIAL REPORT: Kuwait’s digital transformation journey
“At the moment the majority of healthcare services are provided by the public sector and Kuwait’s Vision 2035 is to diversify and also make the private sector a key player in providing health services...
View ArticleHealthcare IT News and MobiHealthNews expand into Europe, Middle East &...
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging of our lifetime. Thinking back to January, none of us would have predicted the emergence of a pandemic-causing virus, let alone its...
View ArticleONC announces winners of $2.5M in Star HIE funding
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on Wednesday announced today five new cooperative agreements to health information exchange organizations under its Strengthening the Technical...
View ArticleControversy: Researchers claim hospitals face barriers to public health data...
A research team from the Harvard Business School's Wyss House has doubled down on its findings from earlier this year that hospitals are perceiving public health agencies' ability to receive data as a...
View ArticleTest and Trace: A three point plan to regain public trust
Government & PolicyInteroperabilityPopulation HealthPrivacy & SecurityWhichever way you look at it, many countries across the globe are experiencing a rise in COVID-19 cases coinciding with the...
View ArticleJudy Faulkner talks lessons learned from Epic's COVID-19 response
Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Monday offered her perspective on how the company has responded to the COVID-19 crisis – and described some of the lessons learned along the way.She spoke during a discussion...
View ArticleEpic to use InterSystems as data foundation for latest EHR release
The electronic health record giant Epic will use the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform beginning with the August release of its EHR, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based technology provider announced this...
View ArticleCerner unveils new interoperability tools, as CEO Brent Shafer says...
At the 35th annual Cerner Health Conference, which launched virtually on Tuesday, CEO Brent Shafer described the many ways the company has been helping providers around the world deliver high-quality...
View ArticleSequoia Project sets sights on semantic interoperability with new guidance...
The Sequoia Project announced Wednesday that it's forming a new Data Usability Workgroup to continue removing barriers to interoperability, and is calling for participants in advance of its first...
View ArticleWirral University Teaching Hospital improves data access and saves nursing...
As part of its policy of placing clinicians at the heart of its digital strategy, Wirral Teaching University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - one of the biggest and busiest acute NHS trusts in the North...
View ArticleONC officials offer update on information blocking rules compliance
At the Cerner Health Conference on Wednesday, two representatives from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT offered some updates on the compliance requirements of its 21st Century Cures...
View ArticleInsurance Verification Technology Prevents Errors that Cause Costly Denials
By Juli Forde, Director of Strategic Partnerships, ZOLL® Data Systems2020 is destined to go down in the healthcare history books as the year that drove change in many areas. From lean supply chain...
View ArticleEffective patient matching is essential for interoperability, safety
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View ArticleIntegrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up
A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered...
View ArticleDigital divide remains, despite big COVID-19 tech innovation
During a presentation this past Friday as part of HIMSS Global Health Equity Week, a public health expert from the UN offered his thoughts on some of the challenges and opportunities for worldwide...
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Enterprise Imaging: See What You’ve Been Missing
Author: HylandSponsor: HylandPrimary topic: InteroperabilityTopic: Cloud ComputingElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)InteroperabilityResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleONC offers new compliance extension for information blocking rules
Healthcare stakeholders will have a bit of extra time to get their ducks in a row for the information blocking rules and IT certification requirements outlined in the 21st Century Cures Act.The...
View ArticleInteroperability in cities is improving, but small hospitals lag behind
The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a report this week examining the state of interoperability among hospitals within 15 major cities.The brief, written by ONC Senior...
View ArticleHealthcare industry groups react to extended info blocking compliance timeline
Predictably, most healthcare organizations in the U.S. welcomed the announcement Thursday that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT would allow for extra time to comply with the...
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