Banner Health hits snags migrating two hospitals from Epic to Cerner EHR
Banner Health is running into problems as it works to move two hospitals it acquired in 2015 from the University of Arizona from an Epic electronic health record installation onto a Cerner EHR. “On...
View ArticleIs Apple poised to enter EHR market? New patents have the industry buzzing
A new wave of speculation from industry analysts is putting Apple in the spotlight over its supposed plans for creating a new sort of EHR – the soul of a new device, so to speak.The new speculation is...
View ArticleWant to save hundreds of lives and millions of dollars? Integrate clinical...
When hospitals and health systems can reduce variation in care, it can save lives and reduce costs. The concept is getting a lot of attention from larger health systems today because unnecessary...
View ArticleACO wrangles data from 45 different EHRs for real-time analytics
Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization is a value-based network comprising eight hospitals and about 2600 providers in eastern Massachusetts.It's grown and changed quite a bit over from its early days...
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Using Patient Preferences to Boost Retention and Satisfaction
Sponsor: SolutionreachPrimary topic: Patient EngagementTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Patient EngagementPrecision MedicineResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleWhat happened when GE tried to buy Epic and Cerner and was shut down within 5...
Recently resigned chief executive Jeffrey Immelt on Thursday said GE in the past tried to acquire Epic and Cerner at different times. Immelt, who retired as director and chairman of the General...
View ArticleCMS chief medical officer: We must develop new skills for EHR usability and...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT offered a glimpse at behind-the-scenes work they are doing together to reduce the burden EHRs...
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Future-proofing precision medicine: IT leaders, clinicians and patients must...
How close are we to precision medicine being commonplace, widespread – perhaps even the standard of care? How near are we to an environment where genomic advances are routinely part of the equation...
View ArticleFederal IT analyst: Federal government shutdown would throw wrench in VA deal...
Trying to predict what federal IT budgeting and expenditures will look like in the year ahead is difficult, if not impossible. So we asked Chris Wiedemann, market intelligence senior analyst at McLean,...
View ArticleCarequality now connects more than half of providers through interoperability...
Carequality, a nationwide interoperability framework that makes possible the exchange of healthcare data between and among networks, reports that more than 1,000 hospitals, 25,000 clinics, and 580,000...
View ArticleMeditech signs up 8 Steward hospitals for its web-based EHR
Eight more hospitals in for-profit Steward Health Care System will roll out the new web-based electronic health record system from Meditech.Steward, which operates some three dozen community hospitals...
View ArticleWhy we need to fix the broken technology pipeline for digital medicine now
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)MobileThe health IT sector should look to drug and device industries as examples to establish a successful ecosystem of innovation.Neil CarpenterWhen it comes to...
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The biggest healthcare breaches of 2017
Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Network InfrastructurePrivacy & SecurityQuality and SafetySlideshow Image:...
View ArticleWhy HIPAA shouldn't be an impediment to public health data sharing
Despite the fact that the law has been on the books for more than two decades, there's still a lot of misconceptions about HIPAA and the ways it applies to information sharing. We've even heard horror...
View ArticleAllscripts CEO Paul Black claims the EHR vendor will pull ahead of the pack...
It's been a big year for Allscripts. And not just because of the $185 million acquisition of McKesson Enterprise Information Solutions that closed in October. On the interoperability front, the company...
View ArticleKLAS names 3 keys to successful EHR optimization, and they aren't your...
Looking for a fresh perspective on electronic health record usability and optimization? Here it comes.“Hospitals can make any EMR work if they put the right governance, customization and education in...
View ArticleAllscripts CEO Paul Black talks AI, machine learning and precision medicine
In part one of our two-part Q&A with Allscripts CEO Paul Black on Thursday, he explained how the acquisition this year of McKesson’s health IT business has vastly increased the company's scale...
View ArticleNew Year's resolution: Dust off that EHR contract to make sure you're as...
Ever since hospitals started implementing electronic health record software, certain concerns have lingered in hospital executives’ minds about accountability, liability, even the threat of medical...
View ArticleVA likely wasted $1.1 billion on multiple efforts to modernize EHR, GAO says
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spent $1.1 billion with 138 contractors from 2011 to 2016 on multiple efforts to modernize its legacy EHR system, VistA, according to a new report from the...
View ArticleCVS-Aetna merger will make an even bigger giant out of Epic
While early reports about the planned $77 billion merger between CVS and Aetna focused on massive market share in the pharmacy and insurance realms, there is also the promise of a new era in analytics,...
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