Poll: Is the time right for consumer-facing apps like Apple Health Records to...
Other consumer-facing companies, such as Google and Microsoft, have developed personal health record products in recent years, with limited success. Google experimented with the idea but shut it down...
View ArticleKLAS report explores health IT buying decisions, customer satisfaction
When choosing a vendor, customers focus on integration, consolidation and functionality, according to a new study from KLAS that looks at how IT decision-makers choose their technologies in different...
View ArticleCan Lean methodology help improve EHR documentation?
Clinical documentation improvement has been a major focus of many health systems' value-based care initiatives. But getting to more efficient and more accurate charting, especially for providers using...
View ArticleBlack Book: Epic, Cerner, Meditech take top scores in new EHR survey but...
Rival EHR vendors Epic, Cerner and Meditech all rated well when it comes to client satisfaction in a new a new Black Book survey released Friday but the market is poised for a shakeout as Amazon and...
View ArticleChanging the game: Machine learning in healthcare
Artificial IntelligenceDecision SupportElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Population HealthPrecision MedicineWhen EHRs can learn – gather and remember – what works best for each user, they can attain...
View ArticleHow one community hospital earned HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7
Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital recently earned a prestigious achievement, attaining Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model – joining just 6.4 percent of...
View ArticleIllinois procurement board recommends voiding UI Health EHR contract with Epic
The Illinois Procurement Policy Board is recommending the EHR contract between the University of Illinois Health and Epic be voided due to conflict of interest. The board voted 3-0 this week to forward...
View ArticleMenninger Clinic to roll out Cerner Millennium EHR in the cloud
The Menninger Clinic, a behavioral healthcare hospital in Houston, Texas, has selected the new Cerner Integrated Behavioral Health model of Cerner Millenium.In signing up for Cerner’s hosted electronic...
View ArticleCMS overhauls meaningful use EHR program, removes redundancies
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to their...
View ArticleDoD seeking metadata management systems to help with MHS Genesis
The Veteran Affair's electronic health record upgrade may still be on pause, but the Defense Department's Cerner migration is well underway. And the Defense Health Agency is now seeking information...
View ArticlePutting predictive analytics and medical device data to work reducing a...
Can predictive analytics, fueled by real-time medical device data, accurately identify patients at-risk for post-op respiratory depression without inducing alarm fatigue in clinicians? That was the...
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Nursing Informatics 101: Developing an Engaged Nursing Informatics Culture
Author: HIMSS Learning CenterSponsor: HIMSSPrimary topic: ClinicalTopic: ClinicalElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
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Advancing Nursing Informatics: From Learner to Leader
Author: HIMSS Learning CenterSponsor: HIMSSPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: ClinicalElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleVA's EHR modernization gets $1.2 billion in House funding bill
The House Appropriations Committee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs voted to fund the VA’s planned EHR modernization project with $1.2 billion for fiscal year 2019 -- and laid down clear...
View ArticleMayo Clinic's Epic EHR go-live: A look at major milestones leading up to big...
Mayo Clinic is just days away from rolling out Epic’s EHR at its Rochester, Minnesota, headquarters. The May 5 go-live will advance an enterprise implementation that is estimated to cost $1.5 billion...
View ArticlePromoting interoperability: What hospitals are saying about new CMS rule...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services late Tuesday announced substantive changes to the meaningful use program and while hospitals appreciate one of them, two others are drawing less...
View ArticleClinical optimization: Liberating the data from EHRs
When then-President George W. Bush called for “computerizing health records” in 2004, only one in 10 U.S. hospitals had an electronic health record. Ten years later, thanks in large part to the HITECH...
View ArticleCape Fear Valley Health moves to Epic and calls it a CHR, not EHR
Cape Fear Valley Health, a 916-bed regional health system based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has chosen Epic for a new initiative to unite all of its hospitals and clinics onto a single...
View ArticleUNC Health uses Epic to pull in other EHR data to create better comprehensive...
It’s very difficult for physicians and other frontline caregivers to get complete pictures of patients’ healthcare, of course, since patients so often receive care at multiple locations whose IT...
View ArticleSenator blasts DoD EHR rollout as 'putting patient lives at risk'
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, questioned the current progress of the initial Department of Defense EHR rollout at four test sites in the Pacific Northwest and suggested that tech issues are putting...
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