EHRs

Tracking "trending phrases" in EHR notes may help hospitals forecast surges in infectious disease outbreaks, according to a Feb. 24 report in Nature Digital Medicine.

Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa., developed a new machine learning tool to be used in clinical forecasting, according to a study supported by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Allscripts reported $728 million in net earnings in the fourth quarter of 2020, compared to a net loss of $19 million in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Epic is working on improvements to its artificial intelligence-powered voice assistant to deliver clinicians a hands-free note taking experience within the EHR, according founder and CEO Judy Faulkner.

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.

Epic's and MatrixCare's EHR platforms have generated the highest satisfaction rates among home healthcare providers, according to a recent KLAS Research report.

EHRs are a critical components of a health system's COVID-19 response, offering a trove of data insights that support capacity predictions and optimizations.

Mobile health apps must be interoperable with EHR and run smoothly to provide maximum benefits for patients and physicians, according to the American Medical Association.  emerging, but some healthcare professionals think apps need to address issues of unreliability and incompatibility…

Google and Ascension are continuing the collaboration they began in 2018 by rolling out a tool to help clinicians better organize and search for patient information, the St. Louis-based health system announced Feb. 23.

The Vaccination Credential Initiative, a collective of organizations including Cerner, Epic and Microsoft, hopes to begin testing its co-developed COVID-19 vaccine digital passport technology this spring, according to a Feb. 23 Kansas City Star report.