Interoperability
Barely a month after its launch, the Carequality Interoperability Framework devised by The Sequoia Project has already signed up five health IT heavy-hitters to be the first to implement its data exchange principles: athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts.
IHE North American Connectathon Week begins next Monday at the Cleveland Convention Center and HIMSS Innovation Center. The event runs from January 25 to 29 and will bring together more than 500 software engineers and developers for the testing event, with another 1,000 attendees for the conference and other sessions.
Vindell Washington, MD, has been named the ONC's Principal Deputy National Coordinator, effective January 25, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Karen DeSalvo announced on Tuesday.
Minnesota Community Healthcare Network, made up of an alliance between Canvas Health, Guild Incorporated, Mental Health Resource, RESOURCE, INC. and Touchstone Mental Health, announced today it has joined with RelayHealth to establish interoperability amongst its campuses.
Health Level 7 and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT kicked off a new challenge that aims to alleviate provider frustrations with the usability of HL7's consolidated clinical document architecture standard.
Leadership has never been more important in healthcare. To successfully navigate the challenges facing organizations, leaders must stay informed on the latest developments. And they also need to set policies that position their teams for longterm success.
With 900 care locations and a 1,200-member IT team, Carolinas HealthCare System is sprawling and complex.
Platform mimics an in-person interaction between clinician and patient, company executives said.
In 2015, heath IT got BIG: Big data. Big data breaches. Big EHR contracts. Big M&A deals. Big anticipation about ICD-10. Big plans for (and frustrations with) meaningful use. Big fears about cybersecurity. Big hopes for the future of connected care and population health.
Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have developed an interactive Web application and dataset that puts pediatric cancer mutations and growth under a microscope.