Interoperability

But just 19 percent of LTPAC organizations have some technological capabilities of EHRs operational, report shows. Only 3 percent are using analytics to improve quality and efficiency.

Optimal clinical documentation could go a long way in improving research, education and patient safety.

Vynca, PIC-SURE and Information Softworks emerge from a crowded field with new strategies for probabilistic record matching.

GE Healthcare, Carestream and Agfa lead mindshare for international deployments, but not all customers are satisfied, says KLAS.

NHS Digital has announced that it plans to launch a new open application programming interface (API) lab in partnership with the INTEROPen collaborative. The initiative will bring together developers from the industry and NHS Digital to speed up developments of open source APIs. This will improve integration between the NHS and social care, says NHS Digital, addressing problems around information exchange for clinicians and patients. The lab will be located in Leeds and it is expected that contributors will work on a pro bono basis. All the APIs developed will be open source, building on the FHIR standards from HL7, and they will be made available through an open source licence. NHS Digital says the lab will open towards the end of this year, with interested parties invited to get involved in order to shape governance principles. Richard Kavanagh, Head of the initiative at NHS Digital, said: "I'm really excited by the API Lab's potential to drive forward work on a number of significant open source APIs. By partnering with INTEROPen we will be able to create APIs even faster, delivering real benefits for the health and care system.” INTEROPen brings together individuals, representatives from the industry, standards organisations and health and care providers that want to accelerate development of open standards for interoperability in the field, focusing on data exchange and validation and defining APIs. The INTEROPen board said the new lab will help the community build the ‘methodology for taking a service need through to first of type implementation using open standards adopted by supplier members’.

The joint partnership between University of Missouri and Cerner with St. Louis-based SSM Health will make seamless transfer of data easier for participants.

The company said more than half of U.S. physicians and nearly two-thirds of patients will now be able to view information about benefits and drug costs to make decisions together during office visits.

Specialty hospitals for cancer, heart and transplant and vision and rehabilitation to be built with the tech company’s input on IT design.

Senate, House propose bills for congressional oversight of VA’s Cerner project, would require reports of any major cost increase, loss of health data, delay or privacy breach.

After acquiring McKesson’s EHR business, Allscripts pledges to invest in integration, innovation and interoperability for better population health management.