Expansive planning for creation of an interoperable health system over the next decade includes a final stage, from 2021-2024, when public health agencies and researchers will leverage real-time data...
Clinical laboratories are expected to play a larger role in the health data infrastructure of hospitals in their ongoing push to reduce length of stays. In a global market for lab services projected to...
The Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC)’s task force on addressing barriers to healthcare interoperability met on Oct. 9 to review the Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, which was...
Patient-generated health data and the infrastructure required to support its use will be core topics this week on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP)...
The last official week of summer brings a cooled-down outlook in health IT interoperability in the area of accountable care organizations (ACOs). Also noteworthy this week: a new big-data initiative...
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is the latest organization to join the Health Care Transformation Task Force, a private-sector alliance promoting the adoption of value-based care...
Standards body HL7 International wants the federal government to be more heavily involved in improving the nation’s interoperability infrastructure and has provided recommendations for doing...
Increasing the availability of big data by strengthening the nation’s EHR interoperability capabilities is an essential first step towards improving quality and patient outcomes, says the...
Conversations about EHR adoption and interoperability are often geared towards two major groups: primary care providers and hospitals. These organizations often function as the collection and...
Community hospitals continue to struggle to get their electronic health records to work and communicate the way they need them to, according to a new report from peer60, with EHR usability, limited...
Health IT testing and certification are "urgently needed" to advance healthcare interoperability, according to the American Hospital Association (AHA).
The organization recently published comments on...
Of the recommendations made by a group convened by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) relating to the current status and future direction of EHR technology, three have implications for...
One of the country's chief architect for healthcare interoperability will likely to changing roles.
In an official statement on Tuesday, President Barack Obama nominated the head of the Office of...
According to the head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the answer to that question is not one but "three critical pathways" that are necessary to advance...
With or without federal pressure, healthcare interoperability is in need of advancement and that advancement will take place to serve the business needs of healthcare providers.
That was one important...
Congress will again consider proposed legislation with the purpose of streamlining the exchange of health information between the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.
On March 23,...
Congress is taking a very hard look at EHR interoperability this spring by proposing several significant changes to the way the healthcare industry approaches the sharing of information between health...
Without well-developed and -managed health data infrastructure data to move efficiently and securely between healthcare organizations, providers, and patients and realize the far-reaching benefits of...
With more patients asking for technology in their healthcare, providers need to be smart when implementing new solutions.
The use of telemedicine has increased across the healthcare landscape. The...
