Interoperability

Pharmacist holds and reads a prescription drug box
By Andrea Fox 09:46 am April 17, 2025
Surescripts becomes a QHIN while Redox joins CommonWell. Also, the Sequoia Project releases a payer-to-payer FHIR API Compliance Readiness Checklist 20 months ahead of a key CMS data exchange compliance deadline.
Group of workers with laptops
By Susan Morse 02:35 pm April 11, 2025
Starting Jan. 1, 2026, payers must send prior authorization decisions within 7 days and expedited decisions within 72 hours.
Doctor talking to patient on telehealth screen
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Woman stands by window head against a wall
By Andrea Fox 03:14 pm March 31, 2025
Researchers and developers have announced artificial intelligence tools that aim to shrink the time mental health providers spend on administrative tasks, provide faster triage, support clinical decision-making and improve patient access. 
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Brett Faubion of Wise Hospice Options on AI
By Bill Siwicki 11:14 am March 26, 2025
Once the AI was implemented with several accounts, the tool codified 99% of medications, 85% of sigs and 96% of allergies, Wise's director of operations and finance reports. It's an almost complete prevention of unmatched or invalid medications.
Dr. Arun Mathews, Dr. Anteneh Tesema and Christine Wiese, ARNP
By Bill Siwicki 12:51 pm March 25, 2025
The 13-hospital network's CDS system also maintained stable patient experience scores – and data validated that cost reduction was achieved without compromising quality of care.
A doctor reviewing a patient's record on a digital tablet.
By Adam Ang 07:56 pm March 23, 2025
It aims to consolidate access to digital health records across regions.
Robert Slepin of SE Health and Epic on digital transformation
By Bill Siwicki 12:39 pm March 21, 2025
Robert Slepin, chief digital officer at SE Health and an emeritus CIO adviser at Epic, describes the key aspects of digital transformation that provider organizations need to understand, the primary technologies involved and how to best organize such a comprehensive effort.
veteran draws on a whiteboard with a colleague
By Andrea Fox 10:55 am March 21, 2025
While the department says the contracts are "non-mission-critical or duplicative," several of those canceled in March were for veteran-owned businesses that were focused on the safety and integrity of the ongoing electronic health record rollout.