EHRs

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives penned a letter to Congress on Dec. 16 that claims ONC's proposed interoperability rule lacks adequate safety regulations to protect patients' sensitive information.

St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare will implement Sectra's imaging software, which can integrate with its Epic EHR system, across 14 of its hospitals, according to a Dec. 16 news release.

Charleston, W.Va.-based Thomas Health recently deployed a Meditech Expanse EHR within its emergency department and acute care settings, according to a Dec. 17 news release.

Many patient portals fail to provide thorough, easy-to-follow instructions for using the technology, preventing the portals from achieving their full potential to improve care, according to a new report from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine.

Data extracted from Amazon Comprehend Medical, a software that mines patient health records, can now be linked to select medical ontologies, according to an Amazon Web Services blog post published this week.

Usability scores of EHR vendors that have attested to meaningful use did not improve between 2014 and 2015, according to a Dec 13 research letter published in JAMA Network Open.

Across the board, EHR vendors appear to struggle with delivering effective software to help hospital clients manage population care workflows, according to a recent KLAS Research report.

One hundred and one hospitals and health systems took steps to implement a new EHR or fully deployed a new system in 2019.

Cerner's board of directors approved an amendment to its stock repurchase program on Dec. 13 that authorized the repurchase of up to $1.7 billion of the Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR vendor's common stock.

While most (95 percent) of recently-discharged hospital patients have electronic access to their medical records, just 10 percent of patients actually take advantage of them, according to a recent Health Affairs study.