EHRs
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American Medical Association announced on Nov. 20 a new policy for using EHRs to streamline public health surveillance.
Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.
While Department of Veterans Affairs plans to deploy its new Cerner EHR in March 2020, a House Veterans Affairs subcommittee is concerned VA may not be ready to start using the new system in time, according to Politico's Morning eHealth…
Bogged down by administrative tasks and maintaining the EHR, Amaus, a free medical clinic in Syracuse, N.Y., recently shuttered, according to a Nov. 19 Syracuse.com report.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute granted $1 million to Boston-based Brigham and Women's Hospital to build natural language processing technology that can extract information from EHRs, according to a Nov. 20 news release.
More than 40 percent of the four million patient records exchanged each day through Epic's interoperability network are shared with healthcare organizations that use an EHR system other than Epic, according to a Nov. 19 press release.
Eldorado, Ill.-based Ferrell Hospital and Princeton, Ind.-based Gibson General Hospital, both affiliates of Deaconess Health System, went live on Epic in October, according to a Nov. 19 news release.
Tom Barnett brings more than 20 years of health IT leadership experience to his role as CIO at University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center.
Gender-based differences in EHR use patterns may be the driving factor behind higher rates of burnout among female physicians, according to a study published in NJEM Catalyst.
American Medical Association's House of Delegates adopted a new policy to promote inclusive gender, sex and sexual orientation options in medical documentation for LGBTQ patients, according to a Nov. 19 news release.