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Why EHR data interoperability is such a mess in 3 charts
The thorny matter of interoperability in healthcare, as it is or has historically been in other industries, is almost all-consuming among technology vendors and their clients. Indeed, a big part of the...
View ArticleUpdated: Athenahealth takeover bid: Elliott Management says it might offer...
Activist investment firm Elliott Associates criticized the executives and board of directors at athenahealth for not responding to the firm’s $6.5 billion offer to acquire the company a week after it...
View ArticleSutter Health back online after 24 hours of systemwide EHR outage
Sutter Health faced more than a day of downtime of its Epic EHR and an outage of internal communications this week after the activation of a fire suppression system in one of its data centers,...
View ArticleDems blast VA on EHR modernization progress, acting CIO controversy
A group of House and Senate Democrats are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to remove its Acting CIO over controversies that stem from his role on the Trump campaign, while expressing...
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How Process Intelligence Transforms Healthcare Service Delivery and Costs
Sponsor: TimelinePIPrimary topic: AnalyticsTopic: AnalyticsElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticleCrisp Regional Health goes to Cerner for EHR, revenue cycle management,...
Crisp Regional Health picked healthcare IT tech giant Cerner for a cloud-based integrated EHR and revenue cycle management system for its acute, ambulatory and post-acute care facilities.This is just...
View ArticleVA officially signs with Cerner on EHR modernization project
Nearly a year after the initial announcement, Cerner can officially add another government contract to its belt: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will officially contract with the EHR-giant to...
View ArticleAthenahealth timeline leading up to the current takeover bid
This week Athenahealth is amid a takeover bid of at least $6.5 billion. Elliott Associates offered $160 per share in cash to take athenahealth private, and the investment firm appears willing to up...
View ArticleTrump to nominate acting VA Secretary Wilkie to permanently head the agency
President Donald Trump plans to nominate acting U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie to permanently lead the agency, the President announced on Friday at the White House summit...
View ArticleCIOs and health informaticists have important role to play in precision medicine
The Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers represents chief information officers and other informatics leaders from 70 National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers nationwide. At the HIMSS...
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Next-gen EHRs: Epic, Allscripts and others reveal future of electronic health...
The electronic health record is the lynchpin of healthcare information technology. And it has been evolving at a consistently quick pace in recent years.Healthcare CIOs seeking to ensure they are...
View ArticleCerner President Zane Burke suggests DoD MHS Genesis criticism fake news
Just one day after signing a $10 billion EHR contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Cerner President Zane Burke told investors that the company’s other major government project with the...
View ArticleHIMSS releases free interoperability environmental scan
HIMSS released its Environmental Scan of Interoperability Initiatives to collect in one place the health information exchange options that currently exist for hospitals. The free tool comes as health...
View ArticleONC kicks off $80,000 EHR safety contest
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced a new developer contest focusing on EHR safety. ONC has a history of looking to private sector app developers for innovations that bolster...
View ArticleHow Integris Health fortified data security with identity governance
After Integris Health failed several security audits, the Oklahoma health system concluded it was time to implement an identity governance program.Previously, employees and contractors were accessing...
View ArticleSenate passes $5.2 billion bill to expand VA private sector care, boost...
The Senate overwhelmingly approved the VA Mission Act on Wednesday, overhauling private sector care options for veterans.Passing with a 92-5 vote, the bill cleared just one week after passing in the...
View ArticleEHR market share in flux as small hospitals seek platforms to suit their needs
Of the 216 hospitals that contracted for a new electronic health record system in 2017, a hefty 80 percent of them were smaller acute care sites with 200 or fewer beds, a new KLAS study shows. Those...
View ArticleElliott Management ramps up pressure on athenahealth
As Elliott Management Corp. impatiently taps its feet, waiting for athenahealth to come to a decision about its offer to take the company private in a potential $7 billion sale, the hedge fund is...
View ArticleHIMSS Stage 7 benefits: Unified staff, quality improvement, positioning for...
Achieving Stage 7, the top stage, in the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model is quite a feat. It shows that a healthcare provider organization is playing at the top of its game in...
View ArticleColumbus Regional Healthcare System taps Cerner for EHR
Whiteville, N.C.-based Columbus Regional Healthcare System announced it will deploy the cloud-based model of the Cerner Millennium EHR along with Cerner’s revenue cycle management technology and...
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