From the new Interoperability Pledge to more vendors joining interoperability frameworks, here are five recent announcements related to healthcare interoperability. 1. HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fee-for-service (FFS) payment model that has been the norm in healthcare for decades may finally be on its way out, with many physicians and hospital leaders leaning into value-based care (VBC).

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...