Healthcare pros more suspicious of all EHR vendors after eClinicalWorks scandal
The eClinicalWorks scandal is eroding the trust that healthcare professionals, IT and others have in their electronic health records vendors, a new survey shows.Thirty-five percent of respondents to a...
View ArticleEmbattled eClinicalWorks racks up 3 more new customers
Even though eClinicalWorks recently was nailed with a $155 million settlement from the Department of Justice for falsely obtaining meaningful use certification, healthcare organizations are still...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
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View ArticleMayo Clinic kicks off massive Epic EHR go-live
Mayo Clinic officially hit a milestone in its $1.5 billion system-wide Epic implementation over the weekend: The first 24 sites went live on July 8. The organizations said on Monday that by 2018 Epic...
View ArticleMissouri hospital hands operational IT reins to Cerner
Western Missouri Medical Center, a county medical center the west-central portion of the state, will hand over responsibilities for information technology operations to Cerner, based in nearby Kansas...
View ArticleWhat my brother's fatal hospital stay taught me about EHR optimization
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Advisory Board Senior Vice President Rob Barras shares a personal and tragic account that highlights the immediate need for technology that reduces dangerous...
View ArticleKLAS names top consultants for IT, staffing, go-live EHR support
With no shortage of firms angling to help them get their IT projects off the ground, providers have their work cut out for them deciding who to choose. A new report from KLAS sorts out the specific...
View ArticleAthenahealth CFO out as company looks for new leadership amid financial troubles
Cloud EHR company athenahealth on Friday said Chief Financial Officer Karl Stubelis will leave the company to pursue other opportunities.Jack Kane, a member of the athenahealth Board of Directors and...
View ArticleSenate passes VA appropriations bill, omits Cerner EHR funding
The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the 2018 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs bill on Thursday, which provides the agency with $192.8 billion in total funding.Included in the funds is...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
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View ArticleSenators press CMS to recoup EHR overpayments under meaningful use
Senators Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, have sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma with several questions about CMS’s plans to...
View ArticleCerner hires VA technology expert to help with Vista overhaul strategy
As it begins to plan its massive electronic record health initiative at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Cerner has hired a professional with deep and varied experience in the ways technology...
View ArticleDoD rolls out Cerner EHR at second military site
Naval Hospital Oak Harbor in Washington State has transitioned to the MHS GENESIS electronic health record from Cerner, the U.S. Department of Defense announced today. Oak Harbor is the second site to...
View ArticleGAO official: VA must improve clinician productivity tracking
In testimony this past week before the House of Representatives' Committee on Veterans Affairs, Randall Williamson, director of healthcare at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, spotlighted the...
View ArticleCleveland Clinic names Ed Marx new chief information officer
Ed Marx will take the reins as chief information officer at Cleveland Clinic starting Sept. 1, building on more two decades as a CIO at hospitals around the country.One of the more visible faces in the...
View ArticleEpic notches a first with Canadian EHR install
Mackenzie Health, a regional health network based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, has rolled out an Epic electronic health record, said to be the first full-suite Epic install in a Canadian hospital."The...
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View ArticleFormer athenahealth CFO joins Arcadia Healthcare Solutions
Just days after cloud-based EHR company athenahealth revealed that its chief financial officer would step down to pursue other opportunities, it was announced July 19 that Karl Stubelis has joined...
View ArticleDuke, Novant Health, Carolinas HealthCare System sign on with NC HealthConnex
North Carolina’s state-designated health information exchange grew significantly this week, as three of the biggest health systems in the area agreed to share data via NC HealthConnex. The addition of...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017 (so far)
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