BloomAPI gets $2.4 million for software to release digital records securely,...
Seattle, Washington-based BloomAPI has raised $2.4 million for its medical records processing software. Y Combinator, Slow Ventures, Founder’s Co-Op, Section 32, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Parker Conrad...
View ArticleAthenahealth swings to a profit on 15% revenue jump tied to population...
Electronic health record vendor athenahealth late Thursday posted a second quarter profit of $9.9 million due to a 15 percent jump in revenue compared to the prior year.The company pointed at expanding...
View ArticleEpic rollout at New York hospital backed by $5.7 million state grant
New York State official this week announced $18.7 million in grants six projects to help transform healthcare system in the Finger Lakes Region, including $5.7 million for one hospital’s Epic EHR...
View ArticleMeditech to launch CommonWell data-sharing capabilities in 2018
Meditech, which first joined the CommonWell Health Alliance in 2015, will begin offering its interoperability capabilities to clients early 2018, the company announced.First launched in 2013 by...
View ArticleDirectTrust touts nearly 100,000 provider users
DirectTrust is seeing solid growth in the number of healthcare providers using Direct protocols to share information, an increase in new addresses and is logging more transactions than ever.DirectTrust...
View ArticleWhat eClinicalWorks just told customers about 7 known certification risks in...
Embattled EHR vendor eClinicalWorks has circulated a letter to its customers outlining seven known parts of its software that it said could present an EHR certification issue.Healthcare IT News...
View ArticlePhysician practices bemoan skyrocketing cost of IT maintenance
Physician office IT costs are rising as much as $2,000 to $4,000 more per physician compared with the prior – totalling $14,000 to $19,000 annually per doctor, depending on specialty, according to the...
View ArticleHouse floats bill to incentivize mental health providers to buy EHRs
A bill introduced last week by Reps. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, and Doris Matsui, D-California, would promote incentive payments for behavioral health providers who purchase and adopt electronic health...
View ArticleGAO finds further proof patients are fed up with portals, EHRs
Despite the fact that close to 90 percent of providers participating in meaningful use offer their patients online access, only about one-third of patients actually log in to see their data, according...
View ArticleEHR installs carry huge financial risks, Moody's says, so manage them wisely
Rolling out new electronic health record systems puts hospitals at a significant risk of financial losses, according to a new report by credit rating firm Moody’s.“Hospitals run the risk of incurring...
View ArticleCVS Health, Cleveland Clinic expand clinical affiliation, expand EHR...
CVS Health and Cleveland Clinic are expanding their eight-year clinical affiliation, building on the relationship between MinuteClinic and Cleveland Clinic to enhance care for Northeast Ohio and...
View ArticleHal Wolf named CEO of HIMSS, digital health veteran to replace Steve Lieber
HIMSS has named Harold "Hal" Wolf III to be its new president and chief executive officer, following an extensive search process, the association announced Wednesday.He will succeed H. Stephen Lieber,...
View ArticleMeritus Health plans $100 million Epic EHR installation
After 18 months of planning, Hagerstown, Maryland-based Meritus Health has signed off on a $100 million rollout of an EHR system from Verona, Wisconsin-based Epic Systems.The cost will be distributed...
View ArticleWait! What? Amazon and Apple eye building EHRs
Amazon has started a secret lab at its Seattle headquarters to explore business prospects in the healthcare sector, including EHRs and telemedicine, according CNBC. That report comes on the heels of...
View ArticleOne-third of eClinicalWorks customers prepping to switch EHR vendors, KLAS says
Customers of eClinicalWorks are more or less of two minds about their EHR vendor's recent legal settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, says KLAS Senior Research Director Erik Bermudez.Reaction...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani speaks: 'This chapter has to be closed'
Since its settlement with the Department of Justice in late May, eClinicalWorks has been under fire for its business practices but it has also been winning new customers.The company said on Friday, in...
View ArticleCerner posts all-time high of $1.6 billion in second quarter bookings
Cerner's bookings rose 16 percent to a best-ever $1.6 billion in the second quarter of 2017, company officials said on Thursday.Revenue for the second quarter was in line with the company's guidance...
View ArticleEpic dominates among providers eyeing an outpatient EHR change, but...
The outpatient electronic health record system market is an epic market – one might also say it’s an Epic market.When purchasing a new ambulatory EHR, or replacing or upgrading an existing ambulatory...
View ArticleCould Amazon or Apple actually make a dent in the EHR market?
What with rumors swirling that Apple and Amazon are each considering ways to drive deeper into healthcare, including EHRs and telehealth, it’s time for a reality check.The central question is whether...
View ArticleZuckerberg, Chan give UCSF $10 million for EHR work, health sciences, big data
Atul Butte, MD, pediatrician and computer science leader, has been named the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at UC San Francisco, where he takes the reins at the Institute...
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