Patient safety jeopardized by EHR downtime, JAMIA says
Downtime events in hospitals that shut down the functionality of the electronic health record can result in serious patient safety risks, according to a recently published study in the Journal of the...
View ArticleMayo Clinic sets sights on precision decision support at point-of-care
In a collaboration meant to develop genomics-based protocols for precision medicine, Mayo Clinic is collaborating with Pittsburgh-based 2bPrecise, licensing its cloud-based platform to bring...
View ArticlePew tells Congress to reject Trump's budget cuts to ONC
Another group joined the battle for the budget of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Thursday morning.Pew Charitable Trust manager of health information technology Ben Moscovitch...
View ArticleWill Cerner rollout at VA advance interoperability? Maybe
When U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David J. Shulkin, MD, made the decision to transition the VA away from its self-developed VistA electronic health record system and onto the same one being...
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Poll: Choosing Cerner for VA wasn't a surprise, but not necessarily the best...
We asked our readers if they were surprised the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs chose Cerner as their EHR vendor. Out of the 727 respondents, 77.4 percent said this decision was expected. For many,...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks adds telehealth feature to mobile app
Westborough, Massachusetts-based EMR provider eClinicalWorks has added telehealth capabilities to its mobile app. The company’s device-agnostic platform also provides tools for practice management and...
View ArticleAthenahealth pays $63 million to acquire health app maker Praxify Technologies
Cloud-based EHR company athenahealth will buy Silicon Valley company Praxify Technologies in $63 million deal, athenahealth announced Thursday.Praxify comes with a number of applications, including a...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks scores federally qualified health center contract despite EHR...
The Department of Justice just last week slammed EHR vendor eClinicalWorks with a $155 million settlement for falsely obtaining meaningful use certification but that has not stopped hospitals from...
View ArticleCRM and the Future of Healthcare Engagement
Author: MicrosoftSponsor: MicrosoftPrimary topic: Patient EngagementTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Patient EngagementResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleNovant Health deploys Epic's Healthy Planet tech to track patient conditions
Novant Health is using Epic’s Healthy Planet module to give healthcare providers access to key health trends for patients.“Healthy Planet Link is an analytical tool that gives healthcare providers...
View ArticleHow precision medicine can fix a broken healthcare system
BOSTON – Hospitals, networks and the federal government can use precision medicine to drive expenses out of the system, better understand disease and prevent people from getting sick in the first...
View ArticleLaboratory IT systems grapple with genetic testing surge
BOSTON – Precision medicine holds big promise, but it's also posing big challenges for hospital labs trying to manage a huge increase in requests for genetic tests.At the HIMSS Precision Medicine...
View ArticleHouse committee earmarks $65 million for VA's Cerner EHR transition, but...
A military budget bill passed by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee on Monday would provide $65 million for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to move its VistA IT system to Cerner. However,...
View ArticleBoston Children's, Duke create new Apple CareKit app
Boston Children’s collaborated with Duke Health System to develop the new Caremap app using Apple CareKit.The software is designed especially for the approximately 500,000 children with complex medical...
View ArticleVA Secretary: Cerner tasked with EHR, won't scrap rest of VistA
In his first Capitol Hill appearance since the VA announced it would replace its electronic health record with a Cerner system, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, shed...
View ArticlePrecision medicine demands ‘evolutionary leaps of interoperability’
John Halamka, MD, was just the second human being to be sequenced in the landmark Personal Genome Project in 2008, one of the initial group of volunteers known as the PGP-10.Back then, it cost about...
View ArticleA rape victim’s medical record leads to a lawsuit against Uber
A woman’s medical records are at the center of a defamation suit being filed against the ride-sharing service Uber. The company is being charged with obtaining her records without authorization and...
View ArticleWill Apple buy athenahealth? Jonathan Bush calls rumor baseless
With Apple’s Wednesday revelation of healthcare and medical records plans for the iPhone, analysts said Thursday that the tech titan should snap up athenahealth – and one reported that athenahealth CEO...
View ArticleApple reveals plans to put health records on the iPhone
Apple has been in talks with hospitals and other healthcare organizations to explore the possibility of bringing health records together via iPhones, media outlets reported. The effort to make all...
View ArticlePrecision medicine: Hype today but the promise is even bigger than we think
Precision medicine is more hype than reality right now — but, at the same time, the incredible potential it holds for the future is even greater than all the buzz teases today.That’s what I came away...
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