With Apple consulting Argonaut Project on health records, interoperability...
Apple is said to be working with the Argonaut Project to integrate more electronic health data with the iPhone, a move experts say could go a long way towards advancing medical record...
View ArticleSenate demands timeline on Cerner EHR project for VA, DoD
Sens. John McCain, R-Arizona, Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia, and Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, are calling on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to prepare a timeline for the...
View ArticleWeill Cornell uses HL7 to help integrate structured genomic data into Epic EHR
One of the frustrating challenges in putting precision medicine to work more widely for clinical care is integrating complex and voluminous genomic data into the EHR.Instead, in most cases, "we use a...
View ArticleBest-of-breed still tops in the interactive patient system space, KLAS says
Hospitals have been making big investments in interactive patient systems, finding that they're more useful than mere televisions thanks to the education and entertainment they offer patients.A new...
View ArticleCerner, Epic shops begin electronic exchange of patient records
Two North Carolina-based rival healthcare systems, Novant Health and Carolinas HealthCare, will start exchanging patient records electronically, they announced June 28.Novant is an Epic IT shop, while...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Network InfrastructurePrivacy & SecurityQuality and SafetyAuthor: Jessica DavisSlideshow Image:...
View ArticleAllina Health extends OpenNotes to 500,000 patients
Allina Health announced this week that approximately half a million patients in the Minneapolis region can now read the notes physicians write about them.Allina said that its patients can now log into...
View ArticleLegislators float 'common sense' solution to ease EHR meaningful use burden
U.S. Representatives last week introduced bipartisan legislation to ease the burden that the meaningful use EHR incentive program puts on healthcare providers.The bill, H.R 3120, introduced Friday by...
View ArticleCerner wins government EHR contract in Epic's home state of Wisconsin
Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic Systems apparently passed on bidding for work in its own backyard, giving its main rival a $33 million contract for the digital health information system planned by the...
View ArticleDoD says Cerner EHR deployment to reach next milestone in July
The U.S. Department of Defense publicly stated that its Cerner EHR implementation will arrive on time at the Naval Hospital in Oak Harbor, Washington.DoD delivered that via a tweet carrying the...
View ArticleConsortium posts new LOINC spec that boosts interoperability among lab...
The IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium, a group working on standardizing data exchange between medical devices and information systems, has published a specification called LIVD that it says will...
View ArticleCMS won't punish eClinicalWorks customers for meaningful use EHR attestations
Customers of eClinicalWorks can breathe a little easier. As soon as word got out that the U.S. Department of Justice settled a False Claims Act case with eClinicalWorks, the company’s clients started...
View ArticleCerner co-founder and CEO Neal Patterson dies of cancer at age 67
Cerner Corporation announced that Cerner chairman and CEO Neal Patterson died Sunday, succumbing to unexpected complications that arose after a recent recurrence of a previously disclosed cancer.Cerner...
View ArticleTop 10 stories of 2017 so far: Epic, eClinicalWorks, ransomware, AI and more
At the year's halfway point, we look back on Healthcare IT News' most popular stories, exploring major vendor announcements, general EHR dissatisfaction, rampant ransomware, innovative (potentially...
View ArticleCustomer says eClinicalWorks holding patient data 'hostage'
As eClinicalWorks faces a possible class action lawsuit and the potential for clients to switch to rival EHR vendors, some customers are coming forward with complaints about their treatment. The...
View ArticleEnterprise Medical Imaging: Providers Need a Game Plan
Sponsor: CarestreamPrimary topic: ImagingTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)ImagingWorkflowResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleHalee Fischer-Wright, MD, opens up about challenges women in healthcare face...
MGMA President and CEO Halee Fischer-Wright, MD, is a nationally recognized healthcare executive, physician leader, and coauthor of New York Times bestselling book, "Tribal Leadership." Her new book,...
View ArticleRemembering Cerner CEO Neal Patterson's health IT legacy
The death of Cerner CEO Neal Patterson due to unexpected complications from soft tissue cancer on Sunday night has colleagues and fellow health IT innovators grieving the loss of who most consider a...
View ArticleONC leaders see Silicon Valley-like future for EHR interoperability
Top leaders at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT offered a taste of what ONC’s main priorities are in the near-term and suggested where the agency is headed in the future.“When you...
View ArticleONC shares human-centered design tips to streamline patient medical record...
Despite more medical data being stored in EHRs than ever before, patients and caregivers still are struggling to access that information when and how they need it.“I don’t think patients would say they...
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