Tag: EHR interoperability

June 17, 2019

The vast majority of healthcare organizations have electronic health records systems in place, but the use of such systems does not remain static. New capabilities are added, or organizations decide to rip old ones out and replace them with new […]

December 19, 2018

The push to digitize healthcare has been going on for at least 10 years—that’s when the push began for hospitals and physicians to implement electronic health records. Now, providers are looking for ways to achieve measureable results with the systems […]

October 26, 2018

The vast majority of acute care hospitals has upgraded or plan to upgrade to the 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria. The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT has released results of an analysis of 2017 data from the […]

September 17, 2018

The lack of electronic health record interoperability and sharing of patient data continue to be major barriers to value-based care in Medicare. That’s the consensus of healthcare stakeholders who testified late last week before the House Energy and Commerce Health […]

September 14, 2018

If the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are to succeed in creating interoperable electronic health record systems, an Interagency Program Office must clearly define its role and responsibilities. That’s the contention of members of Congress and a Government Accountability […]

March 28, 2018

Electronic health record usability issues are linked with potentially serious patient harm events, according to a new analysis conducted by MedStar Health. The study, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, looks at some of the patient safety […]

March 8, 2018

With physicians spending more time entering data into electronic health records and less time engaged in direct patient care, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is making the streamlining of the EHR documentation process and reduction of […]

February 19, 2018

Apple’s recently announced efforts to enhance the healthcare capabilities of its iPhone Health app represent a jump-start for efforts to advance the coordination of patient care through record sharing. The push has direct implications for Apple’s designs to play a […]

December 1, 2017

The federal government has spent tens of billions of dollars incentivizing hospitals and physicians around the country to adopt electronic health record systems. However, taxpayers have not gotten what they paid for, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Donald […]

November 30, 2017

President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services contends that by harnessing the power of big data and predictive analytics, the healthcare industry can be made more efficient and lead to better patient outcomes. Alex […]

November 17, 2017

As the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs look to create a common shared electronic health record system, the VA is poised to benefit from DoD investments in a Cerner data center that currently hosts the military’s new EHR. DoD’s […]

November 14, 2017

Physicians are overwhelmed by a tsunami of health data that has little clinical meaning. However, the American Medical Association wants to help doctors harness that information to improve patient outcomes. Speaking at this past weekend’s opening session of the 2017 […]

October 25, 2017

The Department of Veterans Affairs will start to install a new Cerner electronic health record system about a year and a half after the VA negotiates a contract with the vendor. However, it will take the agency seven to eight […]

August 11, 2017

In today’s shifting health industry landscape, as more organizations are going at risk and accountable care organizations continue to proliferate, healthcare providers are searching for ways to improve value-based care metrics to improve their processes. An essential component is a […]

June 15, 2017

A recent University of Michigan survey asked health information exchange (HIE) professionals about their experience with information blocking. Respondents clearly indicated that information blocking is real and is practiced by both health systems and EHR vendors. “Half of respondents reported […]

June 1, 2017

Frontline providers yearn for seamless data flow at the point of care, and are often frustrated by the lack of access to electronic data that exists within and beyond their health networks. Achieving efficient, affordable and cohesive data sharing is […]

May 17, 2017

We hear the same thing from the health IT community every year: We’re committed to enabling seamless health data sharing. It’s the industry’s perennial commitment that electronic health records (EHRs) will soon share patient data across different platforms to ensure […]

March 22, 2017

It’s no exaggeration to say that our EHR systems’ lack of interoperability is the single strongest barrier to nationwide population health management. That’s exactly what ONC reported to Congress in December 2015. A year later in its December 2016 report […]

January 13, 2017

Application programming interfaces give access to data created by others, enabling a computer programmer or someone working on a computer to call up another program and get it to do a particular task, explains Brian Murphy, an industry analyst at […]

December 1, 2016

This week’s annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America again brought more than 50,000 radiology professionals to Chicago from around the world to look at new technologies and trends in the profession. Several trends in the use of […]