Interoperability

Researchers will use the funding to new approaches to enable EHRs to more accurately bring patient information together to ensure clinicians are looking at the right information for a specific individual.

The health IT vendor has exchanged more than 2 million documents through  its EHR in the past 12 months.

The frustrations associated with sharing information have burdened the healthcare industry’s digitization efforts for many years. With application programming interfaces (APIs) taking hold, however, data exchange is now easier to accomplish.

Payers are sizing up the ledger technology for payments and claims processing, but one big area of growth could be next-generation personal health records.

The former U.S. CTO says healthcare is entering an upgrade cycle to more modern technology en route to democratizing health data.

The scholarship recognizes the leadership and innovation in digital health technology of its namesake, the HIMSS president and chief executive for more than 17 years.

The White House opioid group led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also asked Trump to declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency.

Working with the cloud-based database developer helps Experian offer healthcare organizations better speed and scalability to manage patient identification, officials say.

Though the medical informatics group urged ONC officials to take clinician, patient-centered approach.

Interoperability project enables clinicians to get patient information within their EHR workflow.