From the new Interoperability Pledge to more vendors joining interoperability frameworks, here are five recent announcements related to healthcare interoperability. 1. HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cotiviti, a leader in data-driven healthcare solutions, has completed its acquisition of Edifecs, a pioneer in healthcare data interoperability. Furthering Cotiviti’s ...

Electronic health record adoption is on the rise. The number of hospitals using basic EHR systems tripled from 12.2 percent in 2009 to 44.4 percent in 2012, according to a report released by the ...

A pair of recent announcements from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show agencies working to help providers and payers reduce their data exchange burdens and enable Medicare enrollees ...

Health IT software company athenahealth hit a key interoperability milestone with more than 100,000 provider customers now connected to a government-backed data exchange framework. The company says it ...

Most Canadian physicians use electronic health records, but a lack of connectivity means that patient health information ...

Healthcare leaders are continuing to express their concerns about the changes that President Donald Trump’s administration is making to HHS. Just this week, 20 state attorneys general sued the ...

The fee-for-service (FFS) payment model that has been the norm in healthcare for decades may finally be on its way out, with many physicians and hospital leaders leaning into value-based care (VBC).

Digital health transformations are about making sure that what you built works together, at scale, when it matters most.

This year, the interoperability conversation is shifting from technical connectivity to strategic data curation, said Christy Bricker, vice president of strategic operations at Murj. The vendor of ...

When the Office of the Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) was established in 2004, the health information technology (IT) landscape was relatively bare. Few hospitals and providers ...

Healthcare organizations are struggling to navigate the compliance landscape amid a pullback in federal enforcement, a wave of state legislation and emerging voluntary initiatives, experts say.