The ECRI Institute and EHR Association released new recommendations for safer opioid prescribing through EHRs.
EHRs / Interoperability
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.
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health is integrating Suki, an artificial intelligence, voice-enabled digital assistant for physicians, to its EHR system.
Wichita Falls, Texas-based United Regional Health Care System selected Epic as its new EHR provider, Times Record News reports.
In its latest Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System rule updates, CMS introduced a new performance-based scoring method for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals under its promoting interoperability program.
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The Senate's health committee held a hearing March 26 to discuss two recent rule proposals for EHRs as part of the 21st Century Cures Act.
Unauthorized users gaining access to private medical records is not a prevalent concern among young adult patients, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's January 2019 Health Tracking Poll.
Researchers at Boston-based Harvard University Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have designed a computer algorithm to help distribute decentralized EHR data, VentureBeat reports.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has proposed a new definition for interoperability. The comment period on the definition is open until March 30.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit March 25 against Epic brought by employees who claimed the software company illegally denied them overtime pay, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.