Allscripts to show new Microsoft Azure-powered EHR at HIMSS18
Allscripts partnered with Microsoft last year to design a new cloud-based EHR and it will be showing the results at HIMSS18. "Built from the ground up natively within the Microsoft Azure cloud, it...
View ArticleChange Healthcare CEO: Blockchain can help manage patient encounters
It’s been just under a year since McKesson and Change Healthcare Holdings officially established Change Healthcare as its own new health IT vendor — meaning that this year’s HIMSS conference is...
View ArticleTrump earmarks $1.2 billion for VA-Cerner EHR project in proposed budget
In the proposed budget from the Trump administration, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs would get 11.7 percent more in funding or $4.2 billion -- including $1.2 billion for the first year of its...
View ArticleWhat Trump's budget proposal means for hospitals
The federal budget unveiled by President Trump includes sweeping changes to federal health agencies but also brings welcome funding in key areas.“We’re concerned with the direction the administration...
View ArticleHow do you manage documentation when inpatient, outpatient EHRs are different?
Information technologies are rapidly changing the face of medicine. But what happens when practice changes faster than documentation can keep up?That’s a question Andrea Hall, director of clinical...
View ArticleFlu season, workflow issues are snags to Banner Health's switch from two Epic...
Banner Health’s efforts to swap Epic EHRs at two hospitals to Cerner programs continues to create headaches to the tune of $45 million for the healthcare system.The Phoenix-based 28-hospital health...
View ArticleRoche acquires oncology EHR company Flatiron Health for $1.9 billion
Pharma giant Roche is set to acquire oncology EHR software firm Flatiron Health in the first half of 2018, the companies announced today in a statement. Roche will pay an additional $1.9 billion over...
View ArticleGuide to EHR sessions at HIMSS18
Whether you are consolidating multiple systems into one enterprise electronic health record, integrating various vendors products or optimizing an existing EHR, there are many HIMSS18 sessions to pick...
View ArticleRecondo to unveil AI revenue cycle tool for Epic EHR at HIMSS18
Recondo Technology plans to announce at HIMSS18 a new revenue cycle management tool that uses artificial intelligence to leverage Epic’s electronic health record to reduce the risk of denials and...
View ArticleAthenahealth to show new tech to ease burden on doctors at HIMSS18
At HIMSS18, athenahealth will be demonstrating new offerings designed to address a range of pain points physicians face today.The company will introduce a new provider-facing mobile app, for instance,...
View ArticleHouse balks at $10 billion price tag for VA-Cerner EHR project
As the time draws near for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to sign its EHR contract with Cerner, Congressional members are growing increasingly concerned over not only the $10 billion price...
View ArticleEHR interoperability, connectivity a big challenge around globe new study finds
Ninety percent of healthcare professionals participating in a new survey confessed to being confused about what makes a highly interoperable EHR. Black Book Research, in fact, surveyed 11,838 doctors,...
View ArticleDigital Bridge collaboration with Cerner, Epic, CDC and others hope to...
Digital Bridge, a collaboration among healthcare, public health and health information technology organizations, works on the premise that improving information sharing can improve the nation’s...
View ArticleVision for value-based care must include clinical decision support integrated...
Healthcare recognizes the role that evidence-based medicine plays in improving outcomes and lowering costs. The use of clinical decision support tools incorporating evidence-based medicine at the point...
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Here's how Hartford Health met e-prescribing deadline to battle opioid crisis
Hartford Health is a large health system serving the greater central Connecticut area. Last June, state lawmakers passed legislation mandating the use of electronic prescribing for opioid medications...
View ArticleJAMA: EHRs fail to reduce administrative billing costs
One of the core reasons the federal government made its push for the adoption of electronic health records was that it would reduce administrative costs. But a new study published this week in the...
View ArticlePrimary care group uses population health IT to help prevent colon cancer
Georgia's Albany Area Primary Health Care is working on population health, focusing on what the provider organization believes to be high priority conditions that will add value to the practice, to...
View ArticleCHIME: Improved data sharing, patient identifiers needed for opioid fight
Technology and data are crucial to limiting the impact of the opioid epidemic, but some congressional mandates may hinder the cause, according to a letter from CHIME to lawmakers.The Senate Finance...
View ArticleCerner to integrate Surescripts prescription pricing data into its Millennium...
Cerner announced a new collaboration with Surescripts to integrate real-time prescription benefit functionality into its Cerner Millennium EHR.The companies said that including the Surescripts...
View ArticleClinical decision support takes to the cloud
The era of value-based care demands the smart use of clinical decision support. With quality improvement now an imperative, CDS is crucial to help health systems move the needle on more effective care...
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