Interoperability drives VA to propose patient record-sharing without hardcopy...
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, proposed a revision to federal regulation on the confidentiality of medical records to fuel better data sharing with private sector providers.The rule...
View ArticleAllscripts still fighting to restore all services 4 days after ransomware attack
Allscripts is still attempting to get all services back to normal after its Raleigh and Charlotte data centers fell victim to a ransomware attack late Thursday night. While waiting for the electronic...
View ArticlePurchasing physician time to assist in EHR, workflow decisions improves...
More and more hospitals are undertaking initiatives to improve day to day operations, workflow and working conditions for clinicians. The concept has been pulled into the Quadruple Aim, which builds on...
View ArticleManaged-Services Providers: Efficient Healthcare IT Management
Sponsor: NTT DataPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleApple to launch Health Records app with HL7's FHIR specifications at 12...
After many months of rumors, Apple announced that it is launching a personal health record (PHR) feature with iOS 11.3, the beta of which launched Wednesday to users in Apple's iOS Developer Program....
View ArticleHere's how much top EHR vendors spent lobbying Congress in 2017
There’s big money at play in health IT. So it follows that technology vendors and often spend their share on lobbying Congress, too. We checked OpenSecrets.org to see how much EHR makers allocated to...
View ArticleTwo Epic shops merge patient portal data
In the latest example of hospitals building new and innovative ways to share information, Novant Health and Wake Forest Baptist Health, both with Epic EHRs, are merging their healthcare data.In the...
View ArticleAllscripts sued over ransomware attack, accused of 'wanton' disregard
Just one week after some of Allscripts’ services were shut down by ransomware, the EHR giant is facing a lawsuit for allegedly failing to secure its systems and data from cyberattacks.Allscripts went...
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Allscripts clients back online, but issues plague some cloud-based providers
Allscripts has restored service to the majority of clients impacted by the outage caused by a ransomware attack on two of the company’s North Carolina data centers, company spokesperson Concetta...
View ArticleWhy Apple Health Records in iPhones could be a big deal - and why it might...
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)MobileIntegration into a clinical workflow is only way to provide value and this app doesn’t offer that yet but many are hopeful Apple can do it.Bill RussellNothing...
View ArticleSMART on FHIR app uses machine learning to help dermatologists make diagnoses
Dermatology is finding Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources an increasingly useful standard from HL7.CoxHealth, a Springfield, Missouri-based health system, is using the VisualDx app that uses...
View ArticleBuilding value-based framework for EHR interoperability depends on provider...
While most of the discussion around EHRs and interoperability tends to the negative -- tricky interfaces and misaligned business incentives if not outright information blocking -- heading into HIMSS18...
View ArticleCoast Guard's abrupt termination of Epic EHR rollout prompts House hearing
The Government Accountability Office has hit the Coast Guard for failing to implement an electronic health record system and creating havoc by resorting to a paper process.The House Transportation...
View ArticleCustom logic modules in EHR creates efficient antimicrobial stewardship...
To meet all federal, state, CDC and Joint Commission guidelines and mandates, Methodist Hospital of Southern California used its electronic health records system to help build its own in-house...
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From Managed Print to Managed Content Services: A Best Practice Approach for...
Sponsor: BrotherPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleHIMSS Analytics survey: Medication safety falls perilously short of patient...
Patients trust that healthcare organizations will provide safe care. Unfortunately, that trust is often broken, according to the results of a survey of 1,131 patients and family members recently...
View ArticleEpic Systems lands Best in KLAS award 8th year in a row
Epic, Optimum Healthcare IT and ECG Management Consultants received Overall Best in KLAS awards in the firm’s new Software & Services report released today. Epic took the top Overall Software...
View ArticleCongressman calls on Coast Guard to sign up for Cerner EHR
U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, R-California, told Coast Guard officials at a hearing of the Sub-Committee of House Transportation and Infrastructure Tuesday to consider piggy-backing on the...
View ArticleAthenahealth partners with NoteSwift on AI-powered EHR documentation
Physicians have a new virtual assistant for their EHR, and her name is Samantha. The technology was launched this past year by Boston-based NoteSwift, and now the AI-powered clinical documentation tool...
View ArticleElekta taps IBM Watson Health to bring AI capabilities to oncology tech
Cancer is responsible for one in six deaths around the world, and each year there are more than 14 million new cancer cases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. As healthcare...
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