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The partnership will help connect service members – active-duty military and veterans – with their electronic data via the statewide health information exchange.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will extend the contract for the electronic health record modernization first launched seven years ago, even in the face of implementation challenges and more Congressional scrutiny.
The precision medicine company will integrate its rWGS technology with Epic, giving health systems using its EHR the ability to gain genomic insights for pediatric and neonatal patients.
Cybersecurity In Focus
The AHA and National Rural Health Association are also onboard for the initiative, which will offer grants, free endpoint security advice and other resources for critical access and emergency hospitals.
Working with Digital Therapeutic Alliance, the data exchange alliance will offer independent assessments of health apps and other patient-facing tools for interoperability, transparency, privacy and security.
The informatics group polled clinicians about the "pervasive challenge" of excessive administrative work, and found that 75% of respondents think too much documentation is detracting from care quality.
Its new survey of inpatient purchasing finds Epic as the only vendor to increase its net market share in 2023 – gaining 153 new hospital clients and now covering more than half of acute care multispecialty beds nationwide.
Cleveland Clinic has named Sarah Hatchett as its new senior vice president and chief information officer.
As cyberattacks increase in scope and intensity, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange is asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to do more to help health systems maintain operational continuity.
New LEAP in Health IT money from ONC is meant to find and fund innovative new approaches to evaluating EHR data quality for machine learning models and driving IT adoption by behavioral health providers.