Electronic health record adoption is on the rise. The number of hospitals using basic EHR systems tripled from 12.2 percent in 2009 to 44.4 percent in 2012, according to a report released by the ...

A pair of recent announcements from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show agencies working to help providers and payers reduce their data exchange burdens and enable Medicare enrollees ...

Interoperability has become the holy grail of health IT. Though it is the universal goal, there is little consensus on how to get there. Even definitions of what interoperability is are varied, and ...

Health IT software company athenahealth hit a key interoperability milestone with more than 100,000 provider customers now connected to a government-backed data exchange framework. The company says it ...

Most Canadian physicians use electronic health records, but a lack of connectivity means that patient health information ...

With its latest round of proposed policies, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) aims to rapidly advance data sharing and interoperability standards in healthcare. The draft rule ...

When most think of Interoperability we think of physicians instantly having the necessary data to treat a patient regardless of where that data was initially documented. For a clinician to use the ...

Healthcare leaders are continuing to express their concerns about the changes that President Donald Trump’s administration is making to HHS. Just this week, 20 state attorneys general sued the ...

HealthEx – through a cross-industry effort with athenahealth, CLEAR, MedAllies and CommonWell Health Alliance – has launched an end-to-end patient data interoperability platform that relies on ...

Interoperability has been a longstanding goal for healthcare: The promise of being able to exchange data seamlessly between health information networks has been a goal the industry has been working ...

When the Office of the Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was established in 2004, the health information technology (IT) landscape was relatively bare. Few hospitals and providers ...

When a patient visits a healthcare provider for the first time, gets referred to a specialist or is rushed to the ER, doctors need up-to-date information about their medical history to ensure they ...