WellSpan Epic EHR goes live without a hitch
WellSpan Health, an integrated health system in south-central Pennsylvania, alerted its patients to possible delays last week before it went live with its Epic electronic health record system on May...
View ArticleSpecialty EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine raises $231 million
Modernizing Medicine, which makes a mobile-based EHR for specialists, has raised $231 million from global private equity firm Warburg Pincus. The company has raised funding a number of times before, so...
View ArticleEpic CEO Judy Faulkner #6 Forbes richest self-made women list
Epic Systems founder and CEO Judy Faulkner is No. 6 on the 2017 Forbes list of richest self-made women, logging a $2.5 billion net worth.Faulkner built the electronic healthcare record company from...
View ArticleVanderbilt preps for massive Epic EHR go-live
Electronic health record system conversions are one of the largest undertakings an organization can undertake, and Epic go-lives are famous for sometimes going wrong.However, Kevin Johnson, MD, thinks...
View ArticleCerner, Truman Medical Centers launch at-home patient monitoring
Healthcare IT giant Cerner and Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City are working together to create disease management programs that employ patient monitoring technology in patients’ homes.Algorithms...
View ArticleVA taps DSS for mobile patient scheduling tool
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is continuing its overhaul of the agency and has awarded Document Storage Systems a $19.6 million contract for an off-the-shelf patient self-scheduling system...
View ArticleActivist investor takes aim at athenahealth
Investment firm Elliott Associates has bought 9.2 percent of athenahealth stock, according to an SEC filing submitted Tuesday, and speculation has already started about what that might mean for the...
View ArticleEHR natural language processing isn't perfect, but it's really useful
The rise of electronic health records with natural language processing technology is transforming provider workflow and clinical documentation.Though NLP is not without its challenges, it can offer...
View ArticleIntegrating device data with EHRs requires focus on governance, privacy
Remote patient monitoring is on the rise, but the challenges to flowing outside data into existing electronic health records are substantial. In the Journal of AHIMA, Kapila Monga, associate director...
View ArticleAthenahealth to hold 'reverse pitch day' for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs at...
Athenahealth is stepping into Silicon Valley with its new More Disruption Please Labs, a planned day targeting startups that hopes to give them an audience with 200 health IT superstars.“MDP Labs’ goal...
View ArticleIs a takeover of athenahealth inevitable?
Since the news broke May 18 that investment firm Elliott Associates scooped up a nearly 10 percent share in athenahealth, rumors have been rampant that its founder and well-known activist investor Paul...
View ArticleEpic rollout at Penn Medicine owes success to training, optimization
As of March, Penn Medicine is live on Epic enterprise-wide, wrapping up what has been an almost decade-long process.Penn began rolling out Epic electronic health record at its ambulatory sites as far...
View ArticleNot so fast, Congress: VistA is more interoperable than you think
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been under fire for years for its electronic health record VistA and the lack of interoperability with the Department of Defense’s EHR and other systems. But...
View Article8 business case elements to consider in choosing EHR for Veterans Affairs
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)InteroperabilityVA Secretary David Shulkin is currently in the process of deciding among electronic health record alternatives for the future. Here are the main...
View ArticleTop EHR makers are leaving the rest in their dust, IDC says
IDC predicted significant merger and acquisition activity on the electronic health record and revenue cycle management horizons, and soon.“Consolidation of the EHR market continued to dramatically...
View ArticleTrump's budget slashes ONC by more than a third
President Trump’s budget proposal, released Tuesday, allocates $38 million to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT for 2018. That’s $22 million, or 37 percent, less than the $60 million...
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InterSystems, Epic land more global business than any other EHR vendors
On the EHR world stage, Intersystems and Epic won more new hospital contracts in 2016 than any of their rivals, according to a new KLAS report: “Global EMR Market Share 2017.”The two companies broke...
View ArticleBeth Israel to unveil new population health system
Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization on July 1 will debut a platform for cloud-based real-time analytics with the goal of improving population health.The value-based network and accountable care...
View ArticleDeSalvo: Interoperability crucial to patient safety
Interoperability doesn't just mean ensuring easy data exchange between two EHR systems anymore, Karen DeSalvo, MD, said on Tuesday. Patients have have an essential role to play, too.DeSalvo, former...
View ArticleTrade groups pan Trump's cuts to health IT
Healthcare industry associations reacted to the White House’s budget proposal that circulated on Tuesday with strong cautionary tones and a call on Congress to fund the Office of the National...
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