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A clinical decision support app, integrated into the electronic health record, enables emergency department physicians to sort through a patient’s medical history for certain conditions in seconds.January 14
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With prior authorization posing a significant pain point for providers, several health insurers and the organization representing them are starting an initiative to improve the process.January 6
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While U.S. primary care physicians are leveraging health IT, they are struggling to coordinate care and communicate with other providers, compared with PCPs in other countries.December 11
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HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard is the linchpin of health insurer Humana’s efforts to support data sharing with provider organizations to improve care for its members.November 18
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New York estimates that its statewide health information exchange reduces healthcare costs by $160 million to $195 million dollars annually.November 13
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The Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative—representing HIEs across the country—sees itself as a critical component of the enabling infrastructure.November 5
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The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission has released draft criteria for its 18 accreditation programs in 2020.November 4
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Geisinger Health System has teamed with Life Image, a network for sharing clinical and imaging data, to better manage breast health records, including previous mammograms.October 30
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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
