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Any healthcare provider or practice using the Elation EHR can integrate with Zocdoc to automatically surface their real-time appointment availability. 

There are some key clinical and financial use cases already showing their worth – but while innovation around artificial intelligence is happening rapidly, there's risk in moving too quickly, one physician expert cautions.

The newest batch of health systems to receive funding to examine their clinicians' patterns of electronic health record use include Brigham and Women’s, MedStar, UCSF and Yale School of Medicine.

The free validation service, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, will run algorithms against a large representative holdout dataset and provide a confidential performance report.

But efforts to innovate the patient experience must be mindful of the healthcare workforce.

Dr. Don Rucker, now chief strategy officer with 1upHealth, weighs in on where TEFCA is headed and his fundamental concerns about veering away from the way the rest of industry computes.

Dr. Don Rucker, now chief strategy officer with 1upHealth, makes the case for a FHIR-based TEFCA to hasten the speed of interoperability. "Let's not reinvent," he said.

For example, the Mayo Clinic has shown that 72.5% of remote patient monitoring patients comply with care plan tasks, including taking meds and monitoring vitals. Further, only 9.4% were readmitted within 30 days versus 20% of patients not using RPM. 

A bipartisan group of 60 senators reintroduced the updated 2023 version of the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act. A companion bill was introduced in the House.