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• 3 EHR training best practices for clinician satisfaction

  By providing specialty-specific EHR training, using e-learning modules, and encouraging ongoing EHR education, healthcare organizations can help promote clinician satisfaction.  Continue Reading

• How 4 EHR Vendors Are Leveraging Generative AI in Clinical Workflows

  Generative AI is generating a lot of buzz across the healthcare industry, with EHR vendors introducing tools to streamline clinical workflows and administrative tasks.  Continue Reading

• How Case Western is Prioritizing Epic EHR Training for Medical Students

  Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is the first medical school to leverage Lyceum, an Epic EHR training platform designed for first-year medical students.  Continue Reading

• What Role Does the EHR Play in Clinical Informatics?

  EHR data can aid clinical informatics research through streamlined clinical trial recruitment, public health surveillance, and health IT analytics.  Continue Reading

• How Clinical Ambient Intelligence Can Address Clinician Burnout

  While clinical ambient intelligence could mitigate clinician burnout, organizations must leverage an implementation strategy that promotes interconnectivity, according to a Forrester analyst.  Continue Reading

• Understanding Cloud-Based EHR Platforms and Their Benefits

  As the digital health transformation progresses, cloud-based EHR platforms could hold the key to health IT scalability for provider organizations.  Continue Reading

• Are Medical Specialty Societies Key to Advancing Health Data Standards?

  Medical specialty societies are well-suited to drive consensus on health data standards, as they include a diverse sampling of representatives from the field.  Continue Reading

• How a Behavioral Health Center Uses HIE to Drive Patient-Centered Care

  Connecting to an HIE has helped a behavioral health center in Connecticut drive patient-centered care through real-time alerts and streamlined data access.  Continue Reading

• 3 User-Centered Design Practices to Drive EHR Usability, Optimization

  Employing user-centered design practices can help healthcare organizations pinpoint clinical workflow challenges to improve EHR usability.  Continue Reading

• What Are the Four Levels of Health Data Interoperability?

  According to the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), health data interoperability has four levels: foundational, structural, semantic, and organizational.  Continue Reading

• How Will Information Blocking Enforcement Drive Interoperability?

  Enforcement of the ONC interoperability rule has begun, with civil monetary penalties of up to $1 million per information blocking violation.  Continue Reading

• How NCQA is Driving Health Equity Through Inclusive HEDIS Measures

  NCQA recently removed gendered language from several HEDIS measures to drive care access and health equity for LGBTQ+ individuals.  Continue Reading

• How HIE Tools Can Bridge the SDOH Data Interoperability Gap

  Across the nation, HIE networks are advancing SDOH data interoperability with community-based organizations to support value-based care.  Continue Reading

• How an HIE Tool Helped an FQHC Boost Care Coordination

  A query-based HIE solution helped an FQHC improve cervical cancer screening rates by 23 percent while streamlining care coordination workflows.  Continue Reading

• How Clinician Perceptions of EHR Use Can Drive EHR Innovation

  Qualitative EHR use research can help researchers gather insight on what to target for quantitative analysis and better inform EHR innovation.  Continue Reading

• How a Statewide HIE Streamlines Care Coordination for Children in Foster Care

  A partnership between DCFS and the Arkansas statewide HIE is helping improve care coordination for children in foster care through automated reports.  Continue Reading

• How HL7 FHIR APIs Are Driving Healthcare Innovation, Interoperability

  With use cases across clinical care, research, health information exchange (HIE), and public health, HL7 FHIR APIs span the healthcare innovation spectrum.  Continue Reading

• Who are the TEFCA Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) Candidates?

  The TEFCA QHIN applicants' health information networks collectively process billions of annual transactions across all fifty states.  Continue Reading

• How An HIE Approaches Continuous Patient Data Quality Improvement

  An HIE in Tennessee has tapped an AI-based platform to reduce duplicate patient EHRs as part of its patient data quality improvement efforts.  Continue Reading

• How a Customized EHR Implementation with RCM Boosted Practice Growth

  Marrying revenue cycle management (RCM) and clinical workflows through a customized EHR implementation helped a pain management practice streamline efficiencies.  Continue Reading

• What Distinguishes HIEs From Health Data Utilities (HDUs)?

  Reshaping the nation's HIEs as state-designated health data utilities (HUDs) offers distinct advantages for public health, according to HIE officials.  Continue Reading

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use Cases to Mitigate Clinician Burnout

  Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can automate administrative tasks to help address clinician burnout and give providers more time to deliver patient-centered care.  Continue Reading

• EHR Optimization, Clinical Automation Top Health IT Priorities Next Year

  Health IT vendor executives say that healthcare organizations will look to EHR optimization and clinical automation in 2023 to address clinician burnout.  Continue Reading

• How a Primary Care EHR Integration Enhanced SDOH Documentation

  Adding a social determinants of health (SDOH) screening EHR integration has tripled SDOH documentation within patient records at Memorial Primary Care.  Continue Reading

• How California Is Approaching HIE to Improve Statewide Interoperability

  New state legislation aims to enhance interoperability through a statewide HIE that will include clinical and social determinants of health (SDOH) data.  Continue Reading

• How AI Scribe Technology Can Cut Clinician Burnout from EHR Documentation

  A New York FQHC adopted an AI-based EHR documentation service from eClinicalWorks to alleviate clinician burnout after its on-site scribe service went virtual due to COVID-19.  Continue Reading

• ACOs Call on ONC, EHR Vendors for CMS eCQM Reporting Support

  ACOs often work with many EHR vendors, so eCQM reporting requires major investment in data aggregation tools.  Continue Reading

• How HIEs Can Empower Patient Data Access, Boost Health Equity

  The Ciitizen Cures Gateway aims to help HIEs and other data providers support patient data access and comply with information blocking regulations.  Continue Reading

• How a Michigan HIE is Working Towards SDOH Interoperability

  Six social care referral vendors have signed a pledge with Michigan’s HIE to support SDOH data exchange and an interoperable social care environment.  Continue Reading

• How Health Information Exchange Can Support Public Health, Equity

  While traditional patient care is a bread-and-butter HIE use case, public health organizations can also benefit from HIE, according to an Indiana HIE executive.  Continue Reading

• How Real-Time Prescription Benefit EHR Integrations Drive Price Transparency

  A real-time prescription benefit EHR integration is helping providers at Presbyterian Healthcare find treatment options that fit the needs, and wallets, of patients.  Continue Reading

• How a Unified EHR Implementation Can Boost Interoperability, Efficiencies

  An EHR implementation at a New Hampshire community hospital is set to enhance interoperability and the patient experience.  Continue Reading

• How EHR Functionality Can Support Gender-Affirming Care, Health Equity

  EHR vendor athenahealth released product enhancements to promote health equity for transgender and non-binary patients.  Continue Reading

• What Are the Benefits of Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)?

  Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) helps ensure EHR data is accurate for a variety of use cases, such as quality reporting and patient care delivery.  Continue Reading

• How HIEs Support Interoperability Use Cases for Payers, Providers

  ClinicalConnect Health Information Exchange (CCHIE) knows interoperability is important not only for providers, but for payers, too.  Continue Reading

• Benefits, Challenges of Using EHR Data for Clinical Research

  Leveraging EHR data for clinical research is promising, but a lack of data standards present challenges for research usability.  Continue Reading

• Wearable health technology and HIPAA: What is and isn't covered

  Healthcare data many think is protected by HIPAA may not be. With wearable health technology, some experts are concerned by what's not covered.  Continue Reading