How providers and vendors can stop patient portals from collecting dust
Most healthcare providers taking part in the federal EHR incentive programs give their patients access to their data – but fewer than 33 percent of patients actually take advantage of it, a recent...
View ArticleAthenahealth bulks up executive leadership, plans to cut $100 million in...
Athenahealth revealed plans this week to change its executive organizational structure with a broad initiative to ratchet up profitability. Founder Jonathan Bush will continue as CEO but the company is...
View ArticlePew calls on VA to ensure interoperability, patient matching with Cerner EHR
Pew Charitable Trusts is calling on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to prioritize patient matching, adopt better standards and improve interoperability as it transitions from VistA to a Cerner...
View ArticleDrchrono injects FHIR support into its EHR
EHR vendor drchrono has announced that its electronic health record, practice management and revenue cycle products now support the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources specification. With FHIR,...
View ArticleAneesh Chopra on the future of FHIR: It's starting to come together
FHIR signals what may be the future of healthcare, and certainly what many wish that to be: An IT ecosystem where systems within an organization and between organizations can easily share data in a...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks scoops up new client for EHR, population health tools
Cedar Valley Medical Specialists, based in Waterloo, Iowa, is eClinicalWorks' newest customer and will outfit more than 90 providers with the company's electronic health record and population health...
View ArticleOIG warns EHR vendors it will 'vigilantly' crack down on false claims tied to...
In the wake of the eClinicalWorks False Claims settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of the Inspector General sent an explicit message to all electronic health record vendors.“OIG...
View ArticleONC kicks off EHR certification tool transition
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology revealed a new 5-year transition of its Health IT Certification Program’s existing testing portfolio to replace the current...
View ArticleHow Jared Kushner helped the VA pick Cerner... quickly
When the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced in early June that the agency would move its outdated EHR system to Cerner, Congress and President Donald Trump hailed the decision as the best...
View ArticleBoston Medical Center is standardizing handoffs, and patients are safer for it
One sure way to reduce risky patient handoffs in a hospital, where the potential exists for miscommunication and medical errors, is to increase the length of shifts that physicians and nurses work. But...
View ArticleAllscripts acquires McKesson’s EHR and revenue cycle tools for $185 million
Allscripts announced on Thursday after stock markets closed that it is buying rival McKesson’s health IT unit.For $185 million in cash, Allscripts gains the product portfolio McKesson calls Enterprise...
View ArticleGAO appoints 15 members to HIT Advisory Committee
The Government Accountability Office on Thursday formally named 15 health technology professionals to the new Health Information Technology Advisory Committee. “It is extremely valuable to have a range...
View ArticleEpic says it absolutely supports patient access to medical records despite...
EHR vendor Epic Systems came under the gun again this week over data sharing and access. Generally, the criticism is that Epic claims its electronic health record system is interoperable while most of...
View ArticleLinguamatics, RealHealthData to mine patient data with natural language...
Linguamatics, whose AI and machine learning algorithms fuel natural language processing technology for text mining, is joining forces with RealHealthData, which works with medical transcription...
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Decide for yourself: Will Apple and Amazon enter the EHR market?
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Slideshow Image: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/sites/default/files/besos-cook-712.pngSlideshow Description: Speculation about Amazon and Apple positioning...
View Article'Patient navigators' track social determinants through EHRs with positive...
When a receptionist hands out a form to fill out at a doctor’s office, the questions are usually about medical issues: What’s the visit for? Are you allergic to anything? Up to date on vaccines?But...
View ArticleUC San Diego is switching to Epic's cloud-based EHR
University of California San Diego Health on Monday announced that it is putting its Epic electronic health record in the cloud.The transition from managing its own on-premise Epic EHR to a cloud-based...
View ArticleTwo maps show just how much Allscripts boosted its EHR footprint by buying...
Remember this catchphrase: healthcare is local.Allscripts revealed late last week that it is purchasing McKesson’s health IT business and, for $185 million in cash, it obtained approximately 500...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks touts interoperability milestone through Carequality framework
The embattled electronic health records and health IT vendor eClinicalWorks has exchanged in 12 months more than two million documents via the eClinicalWorks EHR through the Carequality...
View ArticleCerner's John Glaser: How to finally fix the EHR usability problem
ClinicalElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Government & PolicyThe veteran executive proposes a multi-pronged approach to ending the tyranny of wasted time and effort created by today’s...
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