Yale New Haven Hospital taps Epic to boost care, patient safety
Yale New Haven Hospital, a 1541-bed organization that is part of Yale New Haven Health System, has created a Capacity Command Center to connect real-time data analytics with key services.The CCC was...
View ArticleDigital command center for EHR implementation gains efficiencies and saves...
There is tremendous irony in the fact that so much of the go-live operations management process is often done on paper. One such example of this is how go-live command centers are managed.These command...
View ArticleHIMSS Stage 7 hospital offers lessons to help others striving for the top goal
Obtaining HIMSS Stage 7 recognition is a definite milestone for any organization, yet many hospitals perceive the process of obtaining HIMSS Stage 7 as overwhelming.But hospitals should understand how...
View ArticleEpic EHR now live at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare in Saudi Arabia
Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare in Saudi Arabia is live on its Epic System EHR, executives announced today. It is Epic’s first implementation in the Kingdom.JHAH CEO Daniele Rigamonti, MD, said the...
View ArticleAdvocate Health Care switches to Epic EHR
In December 2017, Chicago's Advocate Health Care announced that it would merge with Aurora Health Care of Milwaukee, Wisconsin – an $11 billion meeting of giants that would create the 10th-biggest...
View ArticleAthenahealth revenue jumps 13%, beats expectations
In its fourth quarter and 2017 earnings report, athenahealth beat Wall Street predictions yesterday with strong revenue growth for both Q4 and the calendar year.Athenahealth stock jumped more than 17...
View ArticleReshaping access to data is required for patients to be truly engaged
The increase in patient engagement efforts in recent years has caused some basic rethinking of long-held assumptions about how to foster wellness. Technology is a big must-have, of course. But what...
View ArticleMercy Health pharmacist: Integrate EHR data into alerting system to reduce...
Charlie Hart, a pharmacy informaticist at Mercy Health, a four-hospital health system in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, is advocating for a rethink of medical alerts. He envisions alerts...
View ArticleAI mines EHR data to predict diabetic patients at risk for kidney damage,...
Artificial intelligence start-up Medial EarlySign in a new study has shown how the combination of AI and EHR data can facilitate early detection and treatment of kidney problems and can help slow down...
View ArticleTips to make eCQM reporting smoother when managing multiple EHRs
Reporting electronic clinical quality measures is difficult, and even more for the many hospitals running multiple EHRs, but there are steps hospitals can take to ease the burden. Among the hardest...
View ArticlePickens County Medical Center chooses Cerner for cloud-based EHR
Pickens County Medical Center, a 56-bed community hospital in Carrollton, Alabama, will roll out an integrated electronic health record across its acute and ambulatory facilities.PCMC selected Cerner...
View ArticleCerner reports record bookings as earnings miss expectations
EHR giant Cerner reported its latest quarterly earnings on Tuesday, describing the fourth quarter as a “solid finish” with bookings up and earnings lower than expected. “We finished the year on a...
View ArticleArtesia General's Stage 6 success story: An organization-wide approach
Artesia General Hospital is in the validation process for Stage 6 of the seven-stage HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, or EMRAM. Director of IT Eric Jimenez and his team faced...
View ArticleHealth 2.0 brings MarketConnect Live to HIMSS18
HIMSS announced on Wednesday that its Health 2.0 unit will now be hosting MarketConnect Live at HIMSS18 to connect technology companies with prospective healthcare customers. MarketConnect Live is...
View ArticleCourt dismisses lawsuit that claimed Epic EHR was overbilling for anesthesia
A U.S. District Court judge in Florida has rejected allegations that EHR giant Epic Systems broke the law by overbilling for anesthesia procedures.The ruling comes as other EHR vendors, notably...
View ArticleColumbia launches new Epic-enabled Center for Precision Dental Medicine
Columbia University College of Dental Medicine this week announced that it will establish a new Center for Precision Dental Medicine, which will make heavy use of technology to enable data-driven...
View ArticleTennessee hospital's EHR hacked by cryptocurrency mining software
Parsons, Tennessee-based Decatur County General Hospital is notifying 24,000 patients of a breach, stemming from a hacker remotely installing software onto its electronic health record software to...
View ArticleExtending Epic EHR Technology and Services
Sponsor: NTT DataPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
View ArticleChildren's Mercy to consolidate multiple EHRs onto Cerner Millennium
Children’s Mercy Kansas City, a pediatric medical center, announced that it will deploy Cerner’s Millennium EHR. Children’s Mercy will implement Cerner’s full suite of solutions, based on Cerner...
View ArticleHIMSS18 Nursing Informatics Symposium to focus on predictive analytics,...
Nurses’ value can hardly be overstated, and one of the ways they demonstrate that value is through the use of health IT. From documentation to predictive analytics and telehealth, the combination of...
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