The Health 2.0 conferences, which focused on start-up technologies in healthcare, will now be under the banner of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).

In a March 21 blog post, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced updates to its Safety Assurance Factors for Electronic Health Record Resilience (SAFER) guidelines, aimed at easing safety concerns associated with electronic health records (EHRs).

In an exclusive interview with Clinical Innovation & Technology, Shobha Phansalkar, RPh, PhD, director of informatics and clinical innovation at Wolters Kluwer Clinical Drug Information, explained the impact of alert fatigue on clinicians and the challenges it presents to electronic medical records and interoperability. 

Siemens Healthineers establishes digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services

Achieving nationwide interoperability means navigating legal and market-based barriers. The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices has published a road map to assist governors and state leaders in advancing policies for the safe exchange of patient information between providers.

In a Dec. 16 letter to CMS, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) discussed the need for 2017 to be a transition year with the implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). CHIME expressed hoped CMS would lengthen the timeline for the industry's MACRA transition into 2018.

H. Stephen Lieber, president and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), will be retiring at the end of 2017. 

Chicago-based Rush Health announced in a statement this week its adoption of the InterSystems HealthShare interoperability platform for collaborative care coordination. The new software will help Rush implement a private health information exchange (HIE).