While more hospitals are exchanging information via both electronic and non-electronic means, small and rural hospitals are still fighting to catch up, according to a new brief from the Office of the ...

The ability to share electronic data is becoming a key priority for hospitals and health systems, and 2014 was a record year in terms of data sharing: 76 percent of hospitals exchanged information ...

On December 11, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule designed to improve electronic health care data exchange and streamline the prior authorization ...

Once seen as elusive, cumbersome and even impossible, electronic data exchange is finally coming into its own—and showing a lot of potential. Hospitals are still finding the road to interoperability a ...

Electronic data exchange between physicians and public health agencies was dismal even before the coronavirus pandemic began, new government data illustrates. Fewer than one in five primary care ...

There are six overarching barriers limiting the electronic exchange of health information between hospitals today, according to a report prepared by the ONC. The ONC filed the 22-page report to ...

Nearly two thirds of office-based physicians are engaged in some form of electronic health information exchange (HIE), and three quarters of those who exchange data say they have experienced ...

Oftentimes researchers may not only generalize across a population, but may also extrapolate research findings across time. While either assumption can introduce difficulties, generalizing results in ...

Legislative proposals to protect reproductive health data in Maryland could set a precedent in the United States, says Nichole Sweeney,general counsel and chief privacy officer at CRISP, the ...

The ECIA has posted information about its Automated Data Exchange Initiative, including a new digital solution to help eliminate the inefficiencies of B2B communications. The ECIA has posted ...

Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology “Today, 96% of hospitals and 85% of ambulatory providers [and] physician ...

In the quest to achieve a paperless society, electronic data interchange (EDI) has long been a leading technology. Ralph W. Notto, a leading chronicler of electronic commerce (see Challenge and ...