Modern Healthcare February 29, 2016
Joseph Conn

The nation’s top healthcare information technology developers and many of their largest customers have committed to push interoperability, the Obama administration announced Monday.

The IT companies who made the pledge include Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner Corp., Epic Systems and Meditech, according to the announcement made by HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society convention in Las Vegas.

A total of 17 vendors of EHR and other IT systems involved provide records systems to 90% of the hospitals in the country. Their goal will be to make it easier for patients to use the information in their EHRs.

Participants agreed to three things, Burwell said.

First, they said they would help patients more easily access their...

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Topics: Apps, CMS, Congress / White House, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), HIM (Health Inf Mgmt), HIPAA, HITECH, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, RCM (Revenue Cycle Mgmt)
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