EHRs

With near-instant access to personal data on smartphones, social media accounts and browsing habits, the "data revolution" has seemed to hit nearly every aspect of a consumer's life. However, lags still exist when it comes to personal health records, according…

The FDA's Office of Minority Health and Health Equity awarded a $3 million contract to the New Haven, Conn.-based Yale School of Medicine to study and enhance health equity in clinical trials using ambassadors and EHR data.

Cloud-first strategy or hosting is a frequently used term when discussing digital transformation in healthcare. But building cloud capabilities only makes sense if stakeholders know the purpose behind it.

As hospitals rapidly digitalize products and services, healthcare providers are still using fax machines to share medical data, Bloomberg Law reported Nov. 4.

Cerner is teaming up with Los Angeles-based medical software company Transplant Connect to add a tool to its EHR that automates organ donation and transplant referrals, the companies said Nov. 4. 

Clinical data collection is being hindered by EHRs' failure to represent sex and gender diversity, according to Steven Posnack, the deputy national coordinator at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

President Joe Biden unveiled plans to nominate Kurt DelBene as the CIO and assistant secretary for information and technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs. If confirmed by the Senate, Mr. DelBene would be tasked with guiding the VA's rollout…

Adam Connors, a software engineer at Google who works on the tech giant's Care Studio, said a health scare unveiled to him the effects of a lack of interoperability and incomplete medical records, according to an op-ed CNN published Nov.…

Since the Department of Veterans Affairs deployed Cerner's EHR at Spokane, Wash.-based Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center, 83 percent of employees said their morale has plummeted, Federal Computer Week reported Nov. 2.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR incentive program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to ONC data.