CommonWell Connector Program offers new way to connect with interoperability...
CommonWell Health Alliance on Tuesday announced the new CommonWell Connector program, which offers access to the data exchange network for care providers and electronic health records who may not...
View ArticleEpic to focus on deriving value from data exchange, pop health innovations at...
A major centerpiece of discussion at Epic's booth at HIMSS19 in Orlando next week will be the continuing evolution of the One Virtual System Worldwide initiative it launched just over a year ago–...
View ArticleMeditech integrating opioid stewardship toolkit with EHR
Meditech has announced it is adding an opioid stewardship toolkit to Meditech Expanse, the company's web-based electronic health record.WHY IT MATTERSResearch firm KLAS found that many healthcare...
View ArticleDOJ slams Greenway with $57 million False Claims fine
The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that Greenway Health settled a False Claims Act suit by paying $57.25 million.“In its complaint, the government contends that Greenway falsely...
View ArticleDOJ lawyer in Greenway case: EHR vendors are now on notice
When Greenway Health settled the $57.25 million False Claims and Anti-Kickback charges with the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, the EHR vendor became the second one to meet a similar...
View ArticleHere's what Greenway has to do as a result of the $57.25 million False Claims...
When Greenway Health settled the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback charges with the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, the electronic health record vendor also committed to what the DOJ called...
View ArticleCorrection: Trinity Health says 450 health IT pros will be offered employment...
[Editor's note: An earlier version of this article said the Epic deployment would result in 1,650 displaced employees. This version is now corrected. We regret the error.] Trinity Health on Friday...
View ArticleJAMA: 5 tips to fix EHR usability, 10 years post-HITECH
Hard as it may be to believe, it's been a decade, almost exactly, since the healthcare information and technology industry was turbocharged and totally transformed by tens of billions of federal...
View ArticleNorthern DHBs in New Zealand moving towards a regional clinical portal
Northland and Auckland district health boards (DHBs) have been given the green light for the long-awaited upgrade to their clinical record portal, according to an official release by healthAlliance,...
View ArticleAllscripts subsidiary partners with MIB for life insurance data exchange
ORLANDO – Veradigm, which was launched this past November as a rebrand of Allscripts' payer and life sciences division, announced a new partnership today at HIMSS19 to work with MIB, which provides...
View ArticleAt HIMSS19, Cerner unveils AI tool to fight physician burnout
Cerner today has debuted at HIMSS19 Chart Assist, a new AI-enabled workflow, to join a suite of systems designed to reduce physician burnout, enhance the clinician’s experience and increase...
View ArticlePrecision medicine: huge promise, high hurdles
Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, traveled 400,000 miles in 2018 – jetting all over the world, from China to India to Scotland to Scandinavia.On those journeys, he's seen...
View ArticleHow to gauge the value of precision medicine program
Every health system understands the potential of precision medicine, but not all of them are quite ready to take the plunge into the complex and expensive project of actually starting a precision...
View Article'Excitement and potential are one thing, evidence and implementation are...
Countries in the European region should “move beyond an understanding of the promise of digital health” and accelerate the process of implementation, Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe,...
View ArticleVeritas Captial finalizes athenahealth acquisition for $5.7 billion
Veritas Capital and athenahealth closed the highly publicized $5.7 billion merger that also involves Evergreen Coast Capital and Virence.As part of the transaction, Virence's Workforce Management...
View ArticleEpic CEO Judy Faulkner on Apple, docs who actually like their EHRs and Warren...
Epic CEO Judy Faulkner has been to many, many HIMSS conferences. So many, she says, that she's lost track. As the company she founded in 1979 turns 40 this year, Faulkner sat down with Healthcare IT...
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View ArticleIBM Watson Health invests $50 million in Brigham and Women’s and Vanderbilt...
IBM Watson Health will make a 10-year, $50 million investment in research collaborations with two separate academic centers – Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is a teaching hospital of Harvard...
View ArticlePublic, private collaboration key to advancing interoperability, say HLC and BPC
There's been too much talk for far too long about achieving interoperability, said healthcare leaders during two panel discussions jointly hosted by the Healthcare Leadership Council and Bipartisan...
View ArticleTraining 51,000 employees to learn Epic – lessons from the Plummer Project at...
In October 2018, Mayo Clinic achieved a historic milestone with the final Epic implementation in Florida and Arizona. The epic (pun intended) implementation of Epic across the Mayo Clinic’s network of...
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