EHRs

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is looking for public comments on prior authorization to help guide standards, implementation and certification. 

More automated transfers of electronic health information could bring "huge value" to healthcare providers in terms of saving clinicians' time, according to David Mulligan, MD, chief of transplant surgery and immunology at Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health.

Greenville, Texas-based Hunt Regional Healthcare is adopting Cerner's Millennium EHR across all its facilities.

Helen Newberry (Mich.) Joy Hospital and Healthcare Center and Midland-based MyMichigan Health joined forces to implement a new Epic EMR system for patients at Helen Newberry.

Cerner's president and CEO, David Feinberg, MD, as well as its executive vice president and chief technology officer, Jerome Labat, have agreed not to leave the company in the year following its acquisition by Oracle, according to a Jan. 19…

The language clinicians use in their EHR notes varies by patients' race, marital status and type of insurance, according to a study published Jan. 19 in Health Affairs. 

Hospitals using the same EHR vendor were found to be more interoperable than hospitals that did not use the same vendor, but interoperability is never guaranteed, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association…

An EHR system used by Henry Ford Health System is helping staff identify victims of human trafficking.

Mike McDermott, MD, is president and CEO of Mary Washington Healthcare in Fredericksburg, Va. He is a diagnostic and interventional radiologist who served in a variety of leadership and governance roles at the system prior to becoming its CEO in…

Rock Springs, Wyo.-based Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County is integrating Cerner's CommunityWorks solution, a cloud-based deployment of Cerner's IT platform, to offer better patient care, according to a Jan. 13 Rocket Miner report.