EHRs / Interoperability

Healthcare organizations around the world have collectively invested billions in EHRs. Further investment is almost certain as the technology's documented ability to improve outcomes can help support more efficient, safer care models essential to the success of value-based care. The…

The Department of Veterans Affairs is expanding its My Life, My Story program, which aims to help veterans connect their personal stories with VA healthcare providers through the EHR, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., introduced legislation April 16 that calls for the creation of a third-party committee to oversee the Department of Veterans Affairs' Cerner EHR installation.

New Jersey's departments of health and human services granted $6M for the state's Substance Use Disorder Promoting Interoperability Program, which aims to increase access to EHRs for substance abuse disorder providers.

Glasgow, Mont.-based Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital has finished installing Meditech's web-based EHR.

Programming a hospital's EHR with clinical decision support for gastrointestinal testing can decrease inappropriate testing by 46 percent, according to a study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

EHR interoperability and data sharing among health systems in Singapore can serve as an effective example for America's health industry to consider, pediatrician Aaron Carroll, MD, wrote in the New York Times.

Patients at Naples, Fla.-based Physicians Regional Healthcare System can now access their medical information on their iPhones, Naples Daily News reports.

Construction on the latest phases of Cerner's $4.5 billion campus in Kansas City, Mo., is moving forward, Kansas City Business Journal reports.

Ensuring the Department of Veterans Affairs’ new EHR is interoperable with other health systems is critical for the agency's Cerner rollout, former VA secretary Jim Peake, MD, said in an interview on Cerner's April 16 podcast episode.