Cancer center taps clinical collaboration tech to connect caregivers -...
Centra Health, a Virginia cancer care center, began using clinical collaboration technology at its multidisciplinary lung cancer conference, primarily as a format to document the stage of the patient's...
View ArticleEHR usability not just a pain point for doctors: It can harm patients too
The usability frustrations that doctors encounter with electronic health records are well known at this point but what has been less understood is the impact the software can cause to patients. EHR...
View ArticleDo Apple's recent hospital deals signal industry shakeup ahead?
In a recent opinion piece published by the Harvard Business Review, David Blumenthal, MD, who served as the National Coordinator for Health IT from 2009 to April 2011, writes that Apple's recent pacts...
View ArticleTrump dumps VA chief David Shulkin, will give his personal doctor oversight...
President Donald Trump ousted Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, from his role on Wednesday after months of turmoil within the agency and reports the secretary had fallen from...
View ArticlePOLL: What's next for VA's EHR plan?
In June 2017, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Cerner would replace its legacy VistA system. But now that VA Secretary David Shulkin has been fired by President Donald Trump, we're...
View ArticleShulkin slams 'toxic' Washington, speaks out against VA privatization
Last night, President Trump announced on Twitter that he was ousting Department of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin, MD and advocating for his personal physician Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson as a...
View ArticleLyft joins with Acuity Link, expands access to SNFs and nursing homes
Less than a month after its announced partnership with Allscripts, enabling physicians to order up transportation for their patients directly from their electronic health record, Lyft announced that it...
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Meet the modern healthcare CIO: A business leader that is casting off their...
The acronym for chief information officer is perhaps the last remaining link to the role CIOs have historically played."Today's CIO is no longer an engineering expert provisioning hardware and...
View ArticleApple reveals 39 hospitals to launch Apple Health Records
Just two months after announcing the beta, Apple is now launching its Apple Health Records feature into the wild, the company announced today. The feature will aggregate existing patient-generated data...
View ArticleNQF weighs in on meaningful measures, reducing burden of quality reporting
The National Quality Forum's Measure Applications Partnership is calling for reforming quality measurement to ensure that it is meaningful and of minimal burden for clinicians and providers at...
View ArticleCan the EHR be fixed by eliminating typing and clicking?
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, two prominent healthcare experts call for fixing what is wrong with electronic health records. And they find a lot wrong. As they see it, if an array...
View ArticleFor Alzheimer's center, startup links EHR, wearables, ancestry, genomics data...
George G. Glenner Alzheimer's Family Centers has partnered with healthcare startup Seqster to provide access to its health data platform with the aim of improving the Glenner Centers' care coordination...
View ArticleDrChrono to offer Apple hardware leasing for physician practices
DrChrono, developer of electronic health records, practice management, revenue cycle and other ambulatory software for Apple devices, is introducing leasing bundle plans to help medical practices...
View ArticleIllinois ACO picks Cerner for population health management
The Illinois Rural Community Care Organization will implement HealtheIntent, the big data and insights platform for population health management from Cerner.The group will deploy the technology across...
View ArticleState Department puts out RFI for a new EHR
The U.S. Department of State has released a request for information for a new electronic health record last week, stemming from a failed joint EHR implementation with the Coast Guard.The Coast Guard...
View ArticlePhysicians' Clinic of Iowa taps eClinicalWorks for cloud EHR
Physicians' Clinic of Iowa has decided to switch from its current electronic health record to the eClinicalWorks' new cloud-based V11 EHR to help its 84 providers better manage the demands of...
View ArticleVanderbilt creates AI and natural language processing voice assistant for its...
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has developed a voice assistant for caregivers to use navigating the hospital's Epic electronic health record.The new tool processes requests using natural language...
View ArticleThe results are in: Users say VA officials should keep VistA EHR, not sign...
President Donald Trump ousted Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, last week, after about a month of reports of agency infighting and that found Shulkin was on poor terms with...
View ArticleAthenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush is in a deconstruction state of mind
Jonathan Bush, the voluble co-founder and CEO of athenahealth, is overhauling the company he founded with Todd Park in 1997.In the next 12 to 24 months, he and his team will have completely...
View ArticleCentegra Health slashes ER door-to-doc times by 64% with specialty EHR
About five years ago, Centegra Health System, a three-hospital system in northwest Chicago, implemented McKesson Paragon as the organization's electronic health record. This included using the EHR in...
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