The rule is expected to reduce staff workload, with fewer manual processes, and better visibility into coverage requirements and authorization status.

When a patient visits a healthcare provider for the first time, gets referred to a specialist or is rushed to the ER, doctors need up-to-date information about their medical history to ensure they ...

Interoperability in healthcare, it would seem, is at an important inflection point. Rules around data exchange have been around for years and regulate what patient information gets shared between ...

A robust, holistic approach to data is important in any sector, but it's perhaps most crucial in vital industries like healthcare, where lives are on the line. Unfortunately, the healthcare sector ...

Quality healthcare relies on the ability of providers to share patient data and coordinate care. A patient may visit their primary care physician at the beginning of a care episode and then be ...

Epic this past week released statistics showing that health systems using its interoperability platform Care Everywhere had shared more than 221 million patient records in a one-month period this fall ...

Opala, a healthcare interoperability tech partner, is working with health plans and healthcare providers to create automated information pipelines to support the transition from fee-for-service to ...

Whole person care is a set of coordinated health and human services that addresses the holistic wellbeing of an individual, including physical, mental and socioeconomic factors. Excellence in whole ...

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 ...

Despite technology advances in electronic health records (EHRs) and the establishment of interoperability requirements by regulatory bodies, siloed patient information remains an unsolved problem ...

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 ...