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HHS must decide on a vendor for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, a project designed to secure health data sharing. The nonprofit Sequoia Pro

The total number of people disenrolled varied significantly by state — as did the percentage of total completed renewals affected.

To date, most interoperability solutions merely sit on top of these behemoth systems. And while FHIR provides a common set of protocols...

A new decentralized network of the future exists and is in operation today. Large payers and providers are already beginning to use it for administrative transactions, although clinical transactions are also envisioned.

The federal government wants to drive down prescription drug costs. What's the plan? We'll answer that and other questions in this week's Top Stories, including: How is Bright Heath faring? And what are providers doing with Epic software? For more news and features from Jeff Lagasse, visit Healthcare Finance News.

Epic Systems made 5 major updates in May, from adding 23 hospitals to the Trusted Exchange Framework to working with Microsoft to train Azure OpenAI to draft clinicians responses.

Epic was the most successful EHR vendor of 2022, adding 83 hospitals and 14,330 beds to their network. They also have the biggest hospital market share with 36%

Epic announces the first cohort of health systems, including Mount Sinai, Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, Johns Hopkins and Stanford Health, to join the nationwide interoperability framework.

John Halamka, MD, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, discusses why healthcare information exchanges have failed to solve EHR interoperability issues.

Fax machines and servers may be old tech, but they're trusted. And, until someone comes up with a more secure and prolific method for transmitting patient information and prescription requests, the aging systems aren't going anywhere.