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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said the EHR vendor’s interoperability push over the past two decades has improved care and saved lives. The company launched Care Everywhere in 2008, allowing ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI), a collection of the nation’s largest and most robust nonprofit health data networks, announced today the ...

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 ...

This year, the interoperability conversation is shifting from technical connectivity to strategic data curation, said Christy Bricker, vice president of strategic operations at Murj. The vendor of ...

Despite progress in digitization, health data far too often remains siloed across systems and sectors. For providers, data siloes can threaten patient safety and hinder care coordination by forcing ...

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 ...

The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, doesn’t feature a number of provisions included in the ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CommonWell Health Alliance announced today it is launching the CommonWell Marketplace, a platform designed to connect healthcare providers with innovative solutions that ...