Interoperability

The interoperability alliance, whose EHR vendor members include Oracle Cerner, athenahealth, Greenway, Meditech and others, says it will sign on as a Qualified Health Information Network.

An Oracle Cerner registry and reporting tool was implemented in the nick of time for the pandemic. The Wyoming health system, now saving many hours per week, is applying lessons learned to the impending flu season.

The news marks a "major milestone for TEFCA" said National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi. Sequoia is also seeking stakeholder feedback for its Data Usability Workgroup.

In this virtual discussion, tech leaders stressed the importance of having the right digital infrastructure to deliver connected care.

It has also recommended improving the country's capabilities to link health data with non-health data.

Care, data and connectivity as well as what Indonesia can learn from other nations to advance digital transformation in healthcare will be major themes at the HIMSS22 Asia-Pacific Conference happening from 26-29 September in Bali, Indonesia.

After identifying risks that patients may not take medications, providers received financial resources information to share with them.

Reliable data common across all systems is one of a variety of places healthcare CIOs can push funds, one expert says.

The guide helps inpatient and outpatient providers implement more advanced clinical decision support and integrate data from state prescription drug monitoring programs.

This comes as the agency enforces the government's plan to fully connect the country's health system by 2027.