Michigan behavioral health provider goes live on Epic EHR, seeking better...
Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services in Grand Rapids, Michigan, went live with its Epic electronic health record system this past week.Pine Rest, one of the largest behavioral healthcare...
View ArticleCerner to pay $4.5 million to settle class-action overtime suit
Cerner will pay $4.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that had spent three years in court, after employees charged that it had improperly avoided paying overtime wages.U.S. District Judge...
View ArticleHow disparate EHR systems, lack of interoperability contribute to physician...
Physician burnout is an increasingly common issue in healthcare, and there are a lot of factors that can contribute to it. Long hours, paperwork and the burden of administrative tasks all play a part....
View ArticleMaking the case for investing in identity and access management
Primary topic: Privacy & SecurityPrimary Topic: Electronic Health RecordsAdditional Topics: TechnologyEHRTechnologySecurityTechnologyEHRTechnologySecuritySpecific Terms: Electronic Health...
View ArticleMercy shares EHR data with Johnson & Johnson to help improve its medical devices
In another partnership that will allow its clinicians make more informed treatment decisions while also helping a major vendor improve its implantable devices, Mercy is working with Johnson &...
View ArticleUAE-based Mubadala Healthcare launches Cerner integrated information system
Mubadala Healthcare, based in Abu Dhabi, has implemented an integrated electronic health record from Cerner.The latest rollout adds to Cerner's lead in the worldwide electronic health record market,...
View ArticleCleveland Clinic puts EHR data onto iPhone with Apple Health Records
Cleveland Clinic announced Monday that its patients can now access their personal health data on their iPhones with the Health Records feature.That, together with Cleveland Clinic's version of the Epic...
View ArticleHealth Sciences South Carolina lights up a FHIR-based clinical data repository
While the FHIR specification continues gaining momentum, early success stories are happening among hospitals around the country. Health Sciences South Carolina, for instance, built a FHIR-based...
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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford automates medication management...
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford initiated various safety interventions for medication administration. Moving from a daily medication cart fill – once every 24 hours – to multiple fills per...
View ArticleRecent EHR go-lives, optimizations and EMRAM winners
EHR and related IT installations continued last month as did the number of hospitals that achieved Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Maturity Model. Epic and Cerner both landed...
View ArticleCerner developing 'EHR-agnostic' value-based care technology with Lumeris
Cerner is partnering with Lumeris, a health plan and managed services vendor, with a decade-long agreement, including an ownership stake where the companies will help health systems tackle...
View ArticleRansomware attack on Cass Regional shuts down EHR
Missouri-based Cass Regional Medical Center is currently recovering from a ransomware attack that struck its communication system and shut its staff out of its Meditech electronic health record system...
View ArticleHouse forms committee to track VA Cerner EHR modernization project
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs approved the creation of the Subcommittee on Technology Modernization on Thursday, which will provide oversight of the VA’s EHR modernization project with...
View ArticleNLP evolving from legacy tech to interactive apps with text and speech for...
Natural language processing is a useful technology that's become so commonplace in recent years it's almost hard to remember how miraculous it once seemed.Hospitals are leveraging NLP to innovate...
View ArticleVA creates new Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs established a new Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization, which will be led by Genevieve Morris, Department of Health and Human Services principal...
View ArticleExperts weigh in on CMS' big changes to clinical documentation, EHRs and...
The "historic changes" announced late yesterday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, promising big adjustments to its policies around the Physician Fee Schedule and the Quality Payment...
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Next-gen clinical decision support tools: Analytics and health data in the...
Clinical decision support technology is becoming more popular among healthcare provider organizations to blend large volumes of information and ensure that the key details do not escape the attention...
View ArticleHospitals up the ante for medical transcription tools as vendors modernize...
Medical transcription tools have long been legacy products but as vendors inject modern technologies, notably automation and voice recognition, new data suggests that hospitals are going to deploy more...
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Leveraging Cloud to Revolutionize Health IT and Transform Your EMR System
Sponsor: VirtustreamPrimary topic: Cloud ComputingTopic: Cloud ComputingElectronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)Privacy & SecurityResource Central: Upcoming WebinarsExternal url:...
View ArticlePremier Management streamlines ACO reporting across 33 metrics to improve...
Premier Management Company manages accountable care organizations. Two of its ACOs are leveraging clinical, financial and operational health IT to meet key performance and quality measures under the...
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