Oregon health system to roll out Epic EHR: Here's how they prepared
Oregon-based St. Charles Health System go-live with a $79.5 million Epic EHR implementation on April 7, after two years of planning and development. As EHR projects are some of the most challenging...
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Creating Clinical Value: 4 Steps to Drive Change and Improve Care
Author: LeidosSponsor: LeidosPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleKern Medical taps Cerner for EHR, pop health tools
Kern Medical, a 222-bed acute care teaching hospital in Bakersfield, California, will roll out a Cerner Millennium EHR. The hospital also tapped Cerner for its HealtheIntent, a big data and insights...
View ArticleONC launches tool to help patients navigate health data
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology unveiled the new ONC Guide to Getting and Using your Health Records, a resource for individuals, patients and caregivers.The new...
View ArticleCoast Guard to deploy Cerner EHR in DoD partnership
The U.S. Department of Defense and the Coast Guard are partnering to jointly roll out the same electronic health record, MHS Genesis, the agencies said Monday.The Coast Guard will deploy MHS Genesis to...
View ArticleCoast Guard reveals how it will adopt DoD's $4.3 billion Cerner EHR
The U.S. Coast Guard announced on Monday that it would join the Department of Defense on its EHR project to transition the patient records of its service members and clinics to the DoD’s MHS Genesis...
View ArticleMercy launches healthcare cloud to host Epic EHR, imaging and more for other...
Mercy Technology Services, the IT backbone of one of the largest Catholic health systems in the nation, has launched a new healthcare cloud service designed to meet the needs of the highly regulated...
View ArticleRankin County Hospital District rolls out Cerner EHR
Rankin County Hospital District announced that it has rolled out an integrated Cerner EHR to support and improve the user experience for both patients and clinicians. Rankin is the second provider this...
View ArticleVA drives federal health IT market growth to $8.5 billion, fueled by its EHR
The federal health IT market is seeing strong growth and will peak at $8.5 billion in 2022, which is being fueled in part by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs EHR initiative, according to a new...
View ArticlePoll: The State Department's big EHR decision, should it sign with Cerner?
Just this week, the U.S. Coast Guard announced its plans to join the Department of Defense on its MHS Genesis EHR project. With the Department of Veterans Affairs planning on tapping Cerner as well for...
View ArticleECRI Institute launches tool to help EHR vendors track patient safety
ECRI Institute, through the multi-stakeholder Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety it convened in 2014, has announced a new tool to help electronic health record and other IT vendors assess how...
View ArticleTelemedicine robot enables physician consultations in multiple locations
Miramont Family Medicine, a group practice in Fort Collins, Colorado, has four offices with staff and patients in each location. For physicians, finding the time to be physically present where and when...
View ArticleHow NYU Langone tweaked its Epic EHR for value-based care, saving millions
Health information technology can do a lot to improve care processes, drive better patient outcomes and bolster the bottom line. But sometimes – with the right adjustments and a committed all-hands...
View ArticleNew EHR go-lives, RFIs and other interesting moves so far in April
If the first half is any indication, April is shaping up to be an active month EHR-wise -- and that holds as true among smaller and community hospitals as it does for massive federal government...
View ArticleMunising Memorial Hospital to implement Cerner EHR
Munising Memorial Hospital, an 11-bed, critical access hospital in Munising, Michigan, announced Monday that it plans to implement Cerner EHR and related cloud services. MMH joins the increasing number...
View Article30% of physician practices to replace their EHR within 3 years, Black Book says
Physician practices are looking to improve their electronic health records and many are shopping around for more advanced tools, according a new report from Black Book Research – which sees 30 percent...
View ArticleCIO reflections from HIMSS18: What to do with all that EHR data
AnalyticsElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)WorkflowPenn Medicine chief information officer Mike Restuccia shares four tactics for ensuring success with big data projects.Mike RestucciaThe HIMSS18...
View ArticleUNC Health reaches Stage 7 with advanced EMR, analytics capabilities
UNC Health Care has reached Stage 7, the highest level on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model, which measures healthcare facilities on their use of advanced analytics and health information...
View ArticleHow Apple's Health Records could reshape patient engagement
As a longtime collaborator with Apple – since before it even beta-tested its Health Records project, live now at 39 hospitals – San Francisco-based Dignity Health is in sync with the iPhone developer's...
View ArticleUpdate: VA loses acting CIO Blackburn, creating more uncertainty for EHR project
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Information Officer Scott Blackburn resigned late Tuesday night after four years of leadership on a wide range of technology projects under both former VA...
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