EHR Intelligence

By Hannah Nelson March 28, 2024 - ONC has released the draft 2024–2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan for public comment. The agency developed the draft in partnership with more than 25 federal organizations. The preceding 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan drove progress across government and industry to improve the access, sharing, and use of electronic health information (EHI).

By Hannah Nelson March 27, 2024 - Carequality, a national interoperability trusted exchange framework for health information exchange (HIE), is celebrating its tenth anniversary since The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit advocate for nationwide HIE, first launched the initiative. Carequality became an independent nonprofit organization five years ago. Today, the framework supports the monthly exchange of over 745,000,000 documents across disparate technologies, regions, and networks.

By Hannah Nelson March 26, 2024 - Adopters of interoperability solutions for clinical communications report various levels of EHR integration, even among the most deeply engaged clients, according to a KLAS report. Most respondents indicated at least one key interoperability challenge with their communications tools that especially affects their use cases and outcomes.

By Hannah Nelson March 25, 2024 - A system error in the new Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR contributed to the accidental overdose of a patient in 2022, according to a VA Office of Inspector General (OIG) report. The patient died approximately seven weeks after a missed appointment at the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus.

By Hannah Nelson March 20, 2024 - Epic and athenahealth have the greatest EHR mindshare for potential purchasing decisions across independent ambulatory practices, according to the 2024 KLAS Ambulatory EHR/PM Mindshare report.

By Hannah Nelson March 18, 2024 - Arkansas Heart Hospital is implementing Oracle Health EHR and patient accounting solutions across its network of ambulatory clinics and two hospitals to drive interoperability. In combination with the network's existing Oracle applications for finance and supply chain, the deployments aim to help Arkansas Heart streamline patient data sharing across the organization for enhanced patient and provider experiences.

By Hannah Nelson March 15, 2024 - EHR vendor MEDITECH has expanded its longstanding partnership with Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft company, by integrating a tool that uses generative AI to draft clinical notes. The integration of Nuance's Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot (DAX Copilot) in the MEDITECH Expanse EHR aims to enhance healthcare experiences by automating the creation of clinical notes during patient exams.

By Hannah Nelson March 12, 2024 - Microsoft has partnered with several healthcare organizations to streamline workflows through the deployment of a generative AI tool that drafts clinical documentation. The Nuance Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot (DAX Copilot) DAX Copilot automates clinical note drafting, allowing providers to focus on patients without the interference of manual documentation.

By Hannah Nelson March 11, 2024 - The Surescripts 2023 National Progress Report underscores interoperability gains across the health information exchange (HIE) network, including a 10 percent increase in patient data sharing compared to 2022. Overall, the network supported nearly 24 billion exchanges of patient clinical and benefit information, connecting 2.14 million providers and organizations and reaching over 99 percent of the United States population.

By Hannah Nelson March 11, 2024 - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Defense (DoD), and Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) office recently launched the federal EHR at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (Lovell FHCC) in North Chicago, Illinois. Lovell FHCC provides healthcare to about 75,000 patients annually, including Veterans, service members and their families, and Navy recruits.