EHRs

Allscripts has provided telehealth services to more than 100 healthcare clients through its patient engagement platform in the past month, according to a March 30 news release.

A rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases has affected various aspects of the healthcare industry, from hospitals canceling elective procedures to shaking up plans for EHR go-lives and optimizations.

UnitedHealth Group plans to launch a self-administered COVID-19 test in an effort to reduce risk to healthcare workers who are running short on personal protective equipment, according to The Wall Street Journal.

As soon as the care team at Renton, Wash.-based Providence realized they had their first case of COVID-19 in late January, the IT team sprang into action to update their Epic EHR with tools to support identifying and treating future…

UC San Diego Health researchers have built several COVID-19-specific tools within its Epic EHR to support care management during the pandemic, according to a March 24 study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 

Paul Black, CEO of Allscripts, has spent his career in the health IT space focused on the big disruptors in healthcare and supporting better care delivery.

After deploying its new EHR on March 3, United Community & Family Services is now redirecting its full focus from optimizing the Epic system to its response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Here are seven digital alerts and tools that hospitals and health systems have recently developed or integrated with their EHR systems.

Athenahealth is integrating the latest CDC guidance on the coronavirus pandemic into its mobile medical decision support application for clinicians, according to a March 19 news release.

Allscripts released guidance for its healthcare clients to expedite telehealth services at their respective organizations through its EHR patient engagement platform, according to a March 18 news release.