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There’s actual progress happening in the trenches of standards development, network proliferation and patient access.October 17
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking steps to ensure that it shares medical record information with non-VA healthcare providers by implementing new procedures for access to the data.October 1
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A new rule empowers patients to be active participants in discharge planning and seeks to ensure seamless exchange of their data between acute care and post-acute care settings.September 30
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Seven stakeholder organizations sent a letter to House and Senate committee leaders urging them to ensure that the goals of the Cures Act are met.September 24
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A four-hospital health system will implement the POC Advisor clinical intelligence platform of Wolters Kluwer Health to aid in quicker detection and treatment of sepsis.September 6
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Money from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is helping Montana build a statewide health information exchange.September 6
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The Federal Health Architecture and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT are ending support for an open source software project that promotes healthcare interoperability.September 6
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has tasked The Sequoia Project with creating baseline technical and legal requirements for health information networks.September 4
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Faxes remain the most commonly used way to communicate medical information, advocates contend, and despite having communication tools such as electronic transactions, FHIR and Direct secure messaging, traditional fax still tops them all in terms of use.August 30
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Using data from a statewide health information exchange, researchers have created machine learning algorithms that are able to identify patients who need advanced treatment for depression.August 26
