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AWS Unveils Amazon Connect Health
Amazon Connect Health integrates with EHRs, providing agentic AI capabilities to ease clinicians’ administrative tasks so they can focus more on patient care.
Microsoft makes upgrades to clinical AI assistant
The tech giant has added new capabilities to its Dragon Copilot AI assistant, including features that provide clinicians with relevant information and streamline clinical documentation.
Industry groups weigh in on HTI-5 proposed rule
The HTI-5 proposed rule aims to accelerate FHIR-based API adoption, tighten information blocking rules and reduce health IT certification criteria, all in an effort to deregulate.
How EHR sharing speeds up disability applications for patients
Health systems such as Cone Health and Temple Health are collaborating with the SSA and Epic to speed up the disability insurance application process.
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Latest News
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The Sequoia Project releases best practices for patient data access
The Sequoia Project is seeking feedback on its draft best practices for reducing barriers to patient access to health data.
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Epic's AI Charting goes live
Seven healthcare organizations have implemented Epic's AI Charting tool since it was announced in August, with more going live in the coming weeks.
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VA to pour $1B into EHR upgrades
As part of a historic, nearly $5 billion investment in modernizing VA health facilities, the department will spend $1 billion to update its EHR systems.
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Two-thirds of Epic hospitals have adopted ambient AI tools
Ambient AI adoption was widespread among hospitals that use Epic EHRs, with factors like size, operating margins and geographic location influencing adoption, a study found.
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Health systems urge TEFCA, Carequality to employ stricter privacy controls
In a letter to The Sequoia Project, dozens of health systems advocated for stronger privacy protections in nationwide health data exchange frameworks.
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Study: AI scribes boost physician productivity, increase revenue
A recent study revealed that physicians are gaining productivity benefits from AI scribes without a detrimental effect on claim denials.
Features
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Boosting health record sharing in rural areas through TEFCA
By participating in TEFCA, Bryan Health aims to improve trust in sharing EHR data and boost interoperability in rural communities.
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AI, interoperability to reshape health IT infrastructure in 2026
Health IT leaders share top infrastructure priorities, including cloud migrations, data governance and security.
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New Texas HIE agreement aims to end decades of data silos
A historic pact between Texas HIEs establishes bidirectional admission, discharge and transfer data exchange.
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How Epic, Humana are automating insurance verification
Are we finally doing away with physical insurance cards and manual entry?