Health IT important, but too burdensome for doctors, Tom Price says
U.S Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Thursday said what many doctors are thinking: “We need our physicians to be patient-facing, not computer-facing.”But that doesn’t...
View ArticleSeverino vows to protect and serve health IT as data thieves ramp-up attacks
Roger Severino on Thursday described himself as the top cop of health IT. And with the sector facing rising security threats, he’s taking it seriously.“I came into this job with an enforcement...
View ArticlePartners expands second-opinion service with Health Advocate partnership
Partners Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare, is broadening the reach of its Online Second Opinions Service to include the collection of medical records and radiology and pathology test...
View ArticleOpenNotes honored for liberating data despite physician pushback
OpenNotes was awarded the Health Data Liberator Award at Academy Health’s Health Datapalooza in Washington, D.C. on Thursday afternoon.Started in 2013, the Health Data Liberator Award recognizes...
View ArticleOpen source experts to VA: Keep VistA, it can be fixed
While the resounding opinion is that the Department of Veterans Affairs should replace the proprietary VistA with a commercial EHR, perhaps choosing Cerner as the Defense Department did, that idea does...
View ArticleCerner still leads in EHR marketshare, though smaller vendors are making moves
Cerner still has the greatest market share for electronic health record vendors in the United States, beating out top rivals Epic and Mckesson, according to the latest Kalorama report.McKesson’s market...
View ArticleWake Forest's Epic EHR rollout was a money pit. Here's how they turned it around
In 2014, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem was losing tens of millions of dollars and a major cause was the costly roll-out of both an Epic EHR and Oracle’s PeopleSoft human resource...
View ArticleGreenway Health hit by ransomware attack
Georgia-based health IT provider Greenway Health has been hit with a ransomware attack that affected a limited number of its customers, the vendor announced this week.The cyberattack has limited some...
View ArticleDoD work is ‘making Cerner better,’ as company posts 11% revenue jump
Cerner president Zane Burke said that the EHR vendor’s work with the U.S. Defense Department first go-live was successful and it’s on track for three subsequent pilots planned for this year.“This...
View ArticleMedication errors: Hospitals slow to meet barcode standard, big on CPOE
Only 30 percent of 1,859 measured hospitals fully meet the Leapfrog Group patient safety standard for use of bar code medication administration technology, but a significant 74 percent fully meet the...
View ArticleSome practices still don't run analytics on EHR data
A new survey from MGMA has found that medical practices have mixed approaches to analyzing their electronic health record data.The survey found 31 percent said they use their EHR analytics capabilities...
View ArticleNot so fast, vendors, fixing VistA is not off the table
While the industry is waiting for the Department of Veterans of Affairs to pick Cerner an off-the-shelf EHR to replace its legacy VistA electronic health record, a VA official on Friday said fixing the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Network InfrastructurePrivacy & SecurityQuality and SafetyAuthor: Jessica DavisSlideshow Image:...
View ArticleCerner adds Fusionetics benchmarking to athlete management platform
Fusionetics, a health performance platform for athletes, will collaborate with Cerner to integrate Fusionetics’ assessment programming with Cerner’s HealtheAthlete, the companies announced Monday.The...
View ArticleReady or Not, It's MACRA Time
Sponsor: LeidosTopic: EHRsElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)WorkflowResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleJonathan Bush: Athenahealth relishes 'stealing patients'
Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush said the company is in the early stages of creating a patient market share guarantee, a national calendar asset and a master patient index.Citing an unusual finding that...
View ArticleAnthenahealth stock struggling after poor earnings; Bush partly blames Trump
Shares of Athenahealth are still struggling to make up ground after the company’s stock price fell 17 percent on disappointing earnings, and CEO Jonathan Bush said President Donald Trump is partly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cerner picking up big business from small hospitals
Small hospitals made for the majority of new business for Cerner this past year, according to a new KLAS report, due to the popularity of its easy-to-use CommunityWorks platform.In fact, the KLAS...
View ArticleCloud-based master patient index could offer patient-matching relief
Verato on Tuesday released its Universal MPI, a master patient index hosted as a cloud service that hospitals can subscribe to instead of managing their own patient matching information and...
View ArticleCongress presses VA secretary on VistA interoperability, costs
All options are still on the table for VistA’s future, including the adoption of an off-the-shelf EHR or working with a commercial vendor able to support the outdated EHR, Department of Veterans...
View Article