EHRs

As senior vice president and chief medical information officer at Providence St. Joseph Health, Michael Marino, DO, leads the Irvine, Calif.-based health system's clinical informatics department and system wide optimization efforts.

Fax machines have remained an integral way for hospitals and health systems to securely exchange patient health data in lieu of proficient interoperability between different EHR systems, according to Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the Stanford (Calif.) University School of…

Meditech will deploy its web-based EHR system Expanse at Aga Khan University in Nairobi, Kenya.

Thousands of Allina Health patients received a false email Sept. 19 and Sept. 20 that said their email address for MyChart, the Minneapolis-based health system's EHR patient portal, had been changed, Star Tribune reports.

In 2012, Milwaukee-based Advocate Aurora Health Care partnered with Cerner to create the Advocate Cerner Collaborative, which uses data and technology to improve outcomes and reduce costs.

ECG Managment Consultants details five challenges Health information exchanges (HIEs) and clinically integrated networks (CINs) face that the 21st Century Cures Act will address. 

Epic implementations among small size healthcare practices appear to be increasing as more practices join local accountable care organizations and affiliate with other organizations that use Epic, according to a KLAS Research report.

EHR implementations are challenging for healthcare organizations, and the stakes are high.

Columbia-based University of Missouri's Tiger Institute for Health Innovation was formed in 2009 as a public/private partnership between the university and Cerner.

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare added CancerIQ's genetic screening software to its Epic EHR as part of its population health initiative to better identify and treat cancer.