Several health systems are voicing support for a new federal initiative to improve data exchange and expand access to digital health tools, following a July 30 White House summit that formalized a public-private partnership aimed at building a more connected…
EHRs / Interoperability
Waukon, Iowa-based Veterans Memorial Hospital is trying out a novel strategy to sign up users for the MyChart patient portal attached to its new Epic EHR. Visitors to the hospital’s tent at a local festival, Waukon Corn Days, on Aug.…
The Trump administration on July 30 announced a public-private partnership to create a more connected and user-friendly digital health system for patients and providers. During a “Make Health Tech Great Again” event hosted at the White House alongside the Centers…
Oracle Health has filed data breach reports in three states after a hack at the EHR vendor earlier this year. The company, formerly known as Cerner, submitted the reports in July to California, South Carolina and Texas. It said 4,082…
Boston-based Athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled software and services for healthcare systems, has become the first healthcare IT company to migrate all eligible providers on the athenaOne network to the HSS-sponsored trusted exchange framework and common agreement, according to…
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Torrance Memorial Physician Network, part of Torrance (Calif.) Memorial, is saving time with Oracle Health’s Clinical AI Agent. Here are four things to know from a July 24 Oracle news release: 1. Torrance Memorial Physician Network adopted the Clinical AI…
Technology is evolving quickly, and so is EHR strategy, to improve capacity, operations and patient care. Cody Walker, president of Baptist Health Medical Center – Little Rock is taking the lessons learned from other consumer-focused industries to apply similar analytics…
St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare has settled a class-action lawsuit with users of its MyChart patient portal for up to $9.25 million. The plaintiffs had alleged the 24-hospital system transmitted patient data from MyChart to Facebook, Google and other tech companies…
Health systems continue to partner with Big Tech companies on AI and cybersecurity initiatives. Here are nine such collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month: 1. Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health’s marketing team has developed a secure, custom platform powered…
Gillette, Wyo.-based Campbell County Health went live with a new Epic EHR system July 19. The hospital had been preparing for the transition for 18 months, according to a July 18 news release. It previously used a Meditech EHR system.…