EHRs / Interoperability

Meditech is launching a new division that will offer customers various professional services aimed at enhancing its web-based EHR platform Expanse.

Meditech filed its earnings results for the first quarter of 2019 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission April 30.

More physicians (44 percent) believe that EHRs have hurt quality of care in their workplace than the 40 percent who said the technology has improved it, according to a recent Medscape poll released May 1.

Epic and Cerner maintained the largest share of the EMR market for acute care hospitals in 2018, according to a recent KLAS Research report.

Personal health records for U.S. citizens would help improve the country's healthcare system and enhance interoperability between providers, Barbara Casey, global healthcare leader at information technology and networking company Cisco Systems, told Thrive Global.

EHRs may not be the time-saving, healthcare-streamlining tools physicians were initially promised, but according to Robert Pearl, MD, former executive director and CEO of the Permanente Medical Group, all it will take to fix that piece of software is another,…

Logansport (Ind.) Memorial Hospital will implement a Cerner Millennium EHR, Pharos Tribune reports.

Abilene, Texas-based Hendrick Health System is expanding its contract with Allscripts to develop a single, integrated clinical and financial EHR.

Blockchain technology has made a significant impact on the financial sector, and now the decentralized ledger is making its way into the healthcare space. Beyond assisting patient payments, blockchain has the potential to positively affect patient health records, Computerworld reports.

Patients who receive their medical records and discharge prescription on a USB flash drive rather than a handwritten note may experience fewer post-discharge medication errors, according to a study published in the British Journal of General Practice.