DaVita swaps homegrown EHR for Epic
DaVita announced that it will implement a new EHR from Epic Systems and employ Epic’s Care Everywhere Network.The company, which provides kidney dialysis across the United States and in 11 countries...
View ArticleHealthcare at CES 2018: Blockchain, Blue Button and interoperability among...
LAS VEGAS -- The tech world descended upon Las Vegas this week for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and plenty of health IT’s biggest players were in attendance. While much of the discussion was...
View ArticleDoctors must stop blaming EHRs for clinical documentation shortcut failures
Overuse of copy and paste in electronic health records is a problem. Sure, it's convenient. And it's entirely understandable why it's a common shortcut used by scores of physicians. But it often...
View ArticleMission Health's virtual care success lies in EHR, telehealth integrated...
Since it launched its virtual care telemedicine program in October 2016, Mission Health in Asheville, North Carolina, has completed 1,200 patient visits. In November 2017, the provider organization saw...
View ArticleDirect to consumer genetic testing set for big growth despite clinical and...
As people learn more about the crucial role of genetics in health and the cost to sequence genes continues to decrease, the worldwide market for direct-to-consumer genetic tests could triple over the...
View ArticleCanadian Cerner EHR investigation finds install to be mismanaged, underfunded
The Vancouver Island Health Authority's electronic health record implementation has been fraught with controversy since its launch in March 2016. And the latest investigation, by British Columbia's...
View ArticleSolving physician burnout: Interdependent care teams beyond hospital setting...
Physicians are under more pressure than ever before. Kludgy EHR software interfaces, ICD-10 codes, new payment models, those are just the beginning. So it’s no wonder that physician burnout has become...
View ArticleIndiana moves to drop hospital EHR lawsuit against CIOX Health
The State of Indiana is moving to drop a lawsuit filed against more than 60 hospitals in the state that alleged they falsified records regarding release of electronic medical records and defrauded...
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Understanding and Reducing Healthcare Data Access Risks Through Identity and...
Sponsor: MerlinPrimary topic: Privacy & SecurityTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Privacy & SecurityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleHealthcare expertise and partner-pledge prove crucial in selecting managed...
Managed services organizations supply implementation and operational expertise to advance the capabilities of IT, both to relieve internal staffers of more mundane uptime duties and to supply the ready...
View ArticleInnovaccer's new alert system integrates with EHRs without adding to clinical...
San Francisco startup Innovaccer said it will announce a new alerting tool that integrates with EHRs at HIMSS18.The software, dubbed InAssist, is compatible with browser-based electronic health records...
View ArticleDoD official: MHS Genesis project 'full-steam ahead,' in planned assessment...
The decision to replace the U.S. Department of Defense’s outdated ALTHA was one embraced by officials and its clinicians, who often complained of disparate systems that couldn’t speak to each other....
View ArticleProvisioning EHR to small hospitals and clinics puts connected, improved care...
Healthcare systems with well-functioning electronic health record (EHR) systems often find that smaller hospitals and clinics in their service area are in no such shape, hard-pressed to afford and...
View ArticleeClinicalWorks ‘elevating the EHR’ with precision medicine and artificial...
eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani said the company will be focusing on three technological developments at HIMSS18.It’s been quite a year for the vendor since HIMSS17. In May it settled a False Claims...
View ArticleShulkin: VA-Cerner EHR deal paused over interoperability concerns
The Cerner EHR contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is on hold pending an independent assessment of the agency’s interoperability requirements for the new EHR, said VA Secretary David...
View ArticleFairview Health Services CEO raps Epic as ‘impediment to innovation’
James Hereford, president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services, a not-for-profit integrated care system based in Minneapolis, called Epic Systems an "impediment to innovation.”“I will...
View ArticlePenn Medicine CIO's predictions for 2018: Analytics, EHR advances and...
AnalyticsElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Privacy & SecurityMike Restuccia says surprising partnerships -- CVS and Aetna for instance -- will generate new requirements and adjustments that...
View ArticleEHRs, analytics can help track doctor burnout and potential suicide risk
For health IT consultant Janae Sharp, this year’s presentation at HIMSS18 will be her first. And it’s personal. Sharp’s husband John was a physician until two years ago when he committed suicide. Now...
View ArticleAllscripts hit by ransomware, knocking some services offline
A limited number of Allscripts services went down Thursday after a ransomware incident, according to an emailed statement from company spokeswoman Concetta Rasiarmos.The EHR giant is investigating the...
View ArticleFHIR transformative, blockchain overhyped, CIOs say
Innovation is something everyone in healthcare is after. But not everyone is approaching it the same way – and not everyone is able to prioritize it in the ways they'd prefer. That's according to a new...
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