EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
If healthcare IT were golf, CIOs would take a few mulligans. Choosing and installing an EHR is one of the biggest, most complicated decisions IT leaders will ever make. Reflecting on their implementations, four executives shared hard-earned lessons around training…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., has identified more than 70 medical conditions that consistently preceded Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses using EHR data from two large patient databases. Researchers analyzed longitudinal EHRs from the MarketScan database of more than 150…
Mount Gilead, Ohio-based OhioHealth Morrow County Hospital has gone live with Epic as part of a $6 million IT investment. The hospital adopted Epic on Feb. 22 as its parent system, Columbus-based OhioHealth, brings newly acquired facilities onto its EHR,…
HHS’ Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy is offering $500,000 for health IT developers to turn raw EHR data into actionable insights for clinicians and patients. The EHIgnite Challenge, which launched Feb. 23, will grant $10,000 to each of nine winners…
When Judy Faulkner was starting Epic in the late 1970s, she got an assist from Neil Pappalardo, the late founder of EHR company Meditech. “He and others at Meditech shared advice with me; for example, how to assign offices, what…
A large Baltimore-area health system with an Oracle Health EHR has deployed the company’s cloud-based patient access platform to modernize its contact center operations. “Historically, health systems supported these workflows using on-premises infrastructure sized for peak demand,” a Feb. 18…
Providence, R.I.-based Care New England has partnered with Rhode Island College in Providence to create a pipeline of digitally educated, EHR-trained nurses and healthcare administrators, Tomas Gregorio, chief digital information officer of the health system, told Becker’s. The partnership, announced…
Health systems that acquired former Dallas-based Steward Health Care hospitals have described significant electronic health record and billing-related costs during transition periods, The Boston Globe reported Feb. 18. Boston-based Boston Medical Center Health System, Providence, R.I.-based Brown University Health and…
Laurel, Miss.-based South Central Regional Medical Center has set the record for the most groups to simultaneously go live on Epic’s diagnostic lab data-exchange platform. Nine organizations signed on to Aura as part of South Central Regional Medical Center’s Jan.…
Northwell Health, HCA Healthcare and UPMC are in the midst of major EHR transitions slated for completion over the next several months and years. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare, a 190-hospital system, is working to move its entire enterprise to the…