EHRs / Interoperability

Meditech is integrating a prenatal care, delivery and postnatal care solution to its web-based EHR platform Meditech Expanse.

Advocates, protestors and legislators in Vermont are debating whether to make patients medical records available to physicians in a statewide database, according to the VTDigger.

According to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, first-year physicians spend, on average, 43 percent of the day interacting with patients' electronic health records.

Blockchain developer Augusta HiTech launched its first blockchain-powered EHR platform, which streamlines data sharing between patients and emergency medical services.

Cerner and naviHealth, a provider of post-acute care management, have extended their partnership to create a new offering for Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced program.

After the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was passed in 2009, physicians were hopeful that EHRs would improve efficiency and care; however, 10 years later, the technology systems still have a long way to go, otolaryngology…

Many of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health System's affiliated hospitals are using Apple's Health Records feature, giving patients access to their records through their iPhone.

Four of the top vendors hospitals used to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

A report from the ONC found few hospitals — 8 percent — reported that 50 percent or more of patients have activated access to their patient portals.

Stage 2 meaningful use likely helped increase patient portal use, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.