It is a simple question: “Why doesn’t electronic health information flow after the nation spent $26 billion on electronic health records?" Suggesting a 10-year timeframe or arguing that there is ...

Today Gov. Mark R. Warner announced Virginia's interoperability plan. The strategic plan was drafted by Virginia first responders and approved by the governor earlier this month. The Department of ...

The ONC has outlined how it intends to measure interoperability, a requirement detailed in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. The agency plans to use existing national surveys of ...

Several healthcare associations have raised concerns about some of the privacy and security components of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's proposed 10-year electronic health ...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's updated Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, released today and spanning from 2015 to 2020, will focus on the collection, use and sharing of ...

Jim Jirjis, HCA Healthcare's CHIO, says critics of the ONC's proposed data exchange framework are missing the point that the framework is an ongoing process, and that revisions will be made as ...

Interoperability is one of the most complex and challenging imperatives for healthcare. But it's a matter healthcare chief information officers and other health IT leaders must tackle. A good way of ...

Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D. Some Republicans in Congress have said that the billions of federal HITECH dollars spent to implement electronic health records have not yet resulted in systems ...

Approximately two years ago, the Virginia Fire Chiefs along with other public safety representatives (Police, Fire and EMS) were asked to participate on the Governor's First Responder Interoperability ...

Yesterday, a group called the First Response Coalition released a white paper titled, "SAFETY OVER SPECTRUM: A PLAN FOR FIRST RESPONDER COMMUNICATIONS According to Gene Stilp, who serves as the ...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Health Plan Alliance (Alliance), today announced it selected 1upHealth, a provider of a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) native platform for ...