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The electronic health record software vendor will also be showing the new One Virtual System Worldwide as we well as updates to its MyChart patient portal.

The administration said the burden these programs put on doctors and hospitals has led to consolidation, which reduces competition and drives prices higher.

The electronic health records vendor aims to help doctors engage patients and make it easier for people to adhere to medication plans with price transparency.

Organizations say that ONC should more closely align TEFCA with interoperability work already happening and relax requirements to avoid disruptive setbacks.

The aim is to streamline interoperability between private systems and IT public health agencies for disease monitoring and outbreak response. 

Black Book also predicted a coming shift away from silo electronic health records systems to regional care coordination and information exchange in other countries.

CEO Jonathan Bush said the goal is to remove the grunt work doctors neither want nor are schooled to perform.

The health system said that the practice complexity and large-scale change required to transition to the new electronic health record are also causing delays.

Indiana University and the Regenstrief institute began a five-year $50 million initiative called Addictions Crisis Grand Challenge to tackle apply scientific research and community engagement to the state’s addiction problem.

Thought-leading innovators from startups and major academic medical centers will convene on March 5.