EHRs / Interoperability

HHS and CMS' regulations requiring all healthcare providers and payers to meet interoperability standards will start being enforced on June 30.

Providence Ventures, the innovation arm of Renton, Wash.-based Providence, expanded its partnership with clinical decision support platform RxRevu through a new investment, the organizations announced June 28. 

Canton, Ohio-based Aultman Health Foundation recently began notifying around 7,300 patients that their protected health information had been inappropriately accessed by a former health system employee over the past decade, according to a June 25 Daily Record report. 

Ahmad Maher Abdel-Munim Alsughayer, a former physician at Mayo Clinic, is facing a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized computer access after allegedly inappropriately accessing patients' protected health information during his employment, the Post Bulletin reported.

Health data firm Seqster is joining CommonWell Health Alliance to expand data exchange and interoperability to 24,000 hospitals and provider sites.

As the Department of Veterans Affairs rolls out its $16 billion Cerner EHR, a report revealed that six of the seven VA hospitals reviewed are not filling patients' records into EHRs properly, according to a June 17 Office of Inspector…

Veradigm, Allscripts' payer and life sciences division, partnered with PRA Health Sciences to create an EHR-based clinical research network to help improve data sharing and research collaborations for clinical trials, the companies said June 23. 

As more hospitals and health systems move to adopt value-based care, population health technologies have become a key part of their overall strategies, according to a recent KLAS Research report. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs' $16 billion plan to modernize its EHR with Cerner has had its share of roadblocks. It has paused three times, is possibly billions of dollars over budget, and has caused countless difficulties for VA staff…

EHRs are designed with specialists' needs in mind, which exacerbates challenges for primary care providers and may impede patient safety, according to a May 25 study published in the journal Human Factors.