EHR Replacement: Do It Right - An eBook Guide to EHR Replacement
Author: Healthcare IT NewsSponsor: NextGenPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: White PapersContent Directory: Electronic...
View ArticleMake ICD-10 Easier: Get Answers, Get Ready, Get Going
Author: Healthcare IT NewsSponsor: NextGenPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Resource Central: White PapersContent Directory: Electronic...
View ArticleAtul Gawande to lead Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase venture
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan announced the eagerly-anticipated head of their joint venture on Wednesday: Atul Gawande, MD. Gawande has worn many hats over his distinguished career: surgeon...
View ArticleCMS to host Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference this summer
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will convene its inaugural Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference in Washington, D.C.Kicking off on Aug. 13, the event seeks developers to work together...
View ArticleWhy Walmart filed a patent for blockchain, wearables and EHR data
Walmart’s ongoing investigation of blockchain technologies seems to have intersected with its growing interest in joining the healthcare space, according to a patent application released earlier this...
View ArticleCMS unveils new Data Element Library to support interoperability for...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced what it calls the Data Element Library, aimed to help advance electronic health record interoperability in long-term and post-acute care...
View ArticleMedical group cuts prescription refill requests going to clinicians by 80%
Part of Greenfield, Massachusetts-based Valley Medical Group's approach to healthcare is to ask each team member to work at the top of their job description. That means, for example, that the...
View ArticleAtul Gawande says Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan healthcare venture will take...
SAN DIEGO - Atul Gawande, MD, addressed a range of topics concerning the direction healthcare needs to move at America's Health Insurance Plans Institute & Expo Thursday. Gawande took the AHIP...
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The Holistic Patient Health Record: Image Enabling the EHR
Sponsor: AmbraHealthPrimary topic: ImagingTopic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)ImagingInteroperabilityResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
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Radiology's Playbook for Optimizing Imaging Informatics
Sponsor: AmbraHealthPrimary topic: Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Topic: Data WarehousingElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)ImagingResource Central: White PapersExternal url:...
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How Phoenix Children's structured its EHR to be disease specific to improve...
By optimizing its EHR's advanced clinical documentation technology for treating rheumatoid arthritis patients, Phoenix Children’s enhanced care and physician productivity while also saving about $1...
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The next-generation of healthcare tech
Next-Gen seriesFrom artificial intelligence, analytics and cloud services to EHRs, revenue cycle and telemedicine tools, health technologies are changing. Fast. Our next-gen series dives into the...
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Poll results: Readers say athenahealth should not sell to activist investors
While the future of athenahealth is still unknown after the departure of CEO and co-founder Jonathan Bush, the overwhelming majority of our readers said the company shouldn’t sell to activist...
View ArticlePatient matching will lead to interoperability, Pew says
The Pew Charitable Trusts is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to tackle interoperability, patient identification and limited use of standards to describe clinical information.In...
View ArticleVA to Congress: First Cerner EHR install will go live by 2020
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ EHR project will go live in the Pacific Northwest and by fully functional by March 2020, VA officials told the House Committee on Veterans Affairs on...
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Next-gen interoperability: AI, blockchain, FHIR and open source analytics
Interoperability is the ultimate goal of healthcare information systems. Software and cloud-based services need to be able to talk to one another, to exchange clinical and administrative data to enable...
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Defining the strategic business goals for an EHR cloud migration
The growth in the amount of data to be managed in healthcare shows no signs of slowing. Records of patient encounters are just the tip of the iceberg.The increased use of connected digital medical...
View ArticleVA spent $3 billion over 3 years to maintain VistA EHR, GAO says
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spent about $3 billion from 2015 to 2017, an average of $1 billion a year, to support its legacy EHR VistA, according a new Government Accountability Office...
View ArticleCerner EHR project would be top priority, VA Secretary nominee Wilkie says
If the U.S. Senate confirms Robert Wilkie as Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, implementation of the near-$16 billion Cerner electronic health record would be a top priority at the agency,...
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Next-gen health IT consulting: Moving into post-EHR era
Healthcare information technology is evolving in many ways, and quickly so. That means health IT consulting has to change with the times, to evolve alongside the technology consultants help healthcare...
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