Interoperability

The $28.1 billion carrot paid out to meaningful EHR adopters to date has spurred significant EHR adoption specifically among emergency and outpatient departments, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Enough talk about information technology's use in the practice of medicine. Health IT must become the practice of medicine.

Fluence, the software formerly known as Convergence, extracts data from various systems to "bring the patient story to life" via a longitudinal record.

The Interoperability Showcase is one of the biggest and most buzzworthy facets of the annual HIMSS conference and this year's shindig in Chicago promises to be better than ever.

Electronic health record giant Epic Systems, often criticized for its closed architecture, will soon open an app store -- enabling outside developers to create programs that will work with its EHRs.

The Oregonian talks hacky sacks, standards and the one technology realm where the healthcare industry is on the vanguard.

Users rank their favorite HIE technology makers, while the exchanges face continuing challenges.

Novant Health's electronic health record system is now connected to the Department of Veterans Affairs through the federal eHealth Exchange.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles has committed $50 million to expand its Center for Personalized Medicine.

With fewer than five months before the Department of Defense is due to make a decision on its massive $11 billion electronic health record modernization project, a new report from a heavyweight think tank urges it to opt for an open system.