Welcome to the Health Information Exchange Weekly News Round Up from RosettaHealth. Each week, we will provide you with a summary of all the actionable news that hospitals, HIT vendors, ACOs, and population health providers need to be smart and effective when it comes to health information exchange.

Tripathi: Let’s Do Great Things With EHR Systems, Interoperability

The ONC is maintaining its focus on information blocking, interoperability, and coordination between federal agencies, according to Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health IT.

ONC Prompts Health IT Leaders to Make Interoperability Outcome Goals

The ONC also called for health IT leaders to consider where health IT interoperability has taken them and where they hope to see the industry go in a recent post announcing its “Health Interoperability Outcomes 2030” project.

ONC Defines EHR Certification For SDOH Data To Pursue Health Equity

Last week, the ONC announced its health IT demographic EHR certification requirements to standardize race and ethnicity data collection in the pursuit of health equity.

Epic Systems Dominates 2020 EHR Implementation Market Share

Nearly 150 hospitals implemented Epic Systems EHR throughout 2020, which further contributed to Epic’s stronghold on the EHR implementation market share, according to a recent KLAS report.

Humans Top Digital Scribes For Better EHR Documentation

Human scribes still trump digital scribes in EHR documentation, according to a study published in the Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library.

Data Interoperability, Knowledge Interoperability and the Learning Health System

Dr. Blackford Middleton, physician expert in interoperability and standards, offers a deep dive into how provider organizations can gain more value from their EHR and IT investments, in this recent Healthcare IT News interview.

RosettaHealth Launches NHSN Direct Automated COVID-19 POC Reporting for Long-Term and Post-Acute Care

Last week, RosettaHealth announced that it has officially launched its NHSN Direct solution, which offers a streamlined process for long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) and nursing home facilities to meet the new CMS COVID-19 POC  reporting requirements.

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