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 ...

An AI model developed by Northwestern Medicine investigators improved the transformation of EHR data into standardized health resources more efficiently than current methods, according to a recent ...

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, Meditech and Oracle Health are accelerating efforts to improve interoperability, aiming to enhance data sharing and connectivity across the healthcare industry. Epic is making progress in ...

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 ...

The push to make medical records easier to share could be opening the door for rogue companies to sell patient information to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The increasing healthcare digitization has developed a situation in which massive amounts of clinical and operations information are being created on a daily basis in hospitals, laboratories, and ...

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 ...

Health Information Exchange (HIE) systems facilitate the secure electronic sharing of patient data across disparate healthcare settings, supporting timely decision-making, continuity of care and ...