MDMetrix, a software startup from Seattle Children's Hospital, received $3 million in its latest financing round in support of its data analytics tool, which pulls patient information from EHRs for physician use, Geekwire reports.
EHRs / Interoperability
Utica, N.Y-based Mohawk Valley Health System plans to implement an Epic EHR in June, Eyewitness News reports.
University of Arizona in Phoenix researchers received a $766,000 grant to develop alerts within an EHR system that notify physicians when a prescription drug may put a patient at risk of cardiac arrhythmia.
Cerner is teaming up with DrFirst, a medication management solutions provider, to integrate data from numerous states' prescription drug monitoring programs into its EHR systems.
Athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass.-based health IT software company, appointed Bill Conway as its new chief sales officer to lead the company's strategic execution efforts and improve customers' clinical outcomes.
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Although patient portals often have a lot of valuable features, patients' use of the portals is declining at surprising rates, according to an American Medical Association blog post.
A more interoperable health system will improve health outcomes and efficiency, wrote David Brailer, MD, PhD, former health IT czar under President George W. Bush, in an op-ed for The Hill. However, achieving this goal will require tech companies and…
Lebanon, N.H.-based Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital switched over to an Epic EHR May 11.
A House committee recommended upping the budget for the VA's Cerner implementation from $1.1 billion to $1.6 billion in 2020, the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter reported.
Carle Richland Memorial Hospital plans to implement an Epic EHR to increase interoperability and transfer of medical records, Orion Gazette reports.