More details have emerged on how and when patients of Florence (Ariz.) Hospital at Anthem and Gilbert (Ariz.) Hospital can access their health records, which have been locked away since the hospitals closed in June 2018, ABC 15 Arizona reports.
EHRs / Interoperability
Allscripts FollowMyHealth has teamed with Ephraim McDowell Health inDanville, Ky., to expand its mobile patient engagement platform.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, said the government should apply stronger regulations on EHRs to ensure patient safety, Kaiser Health News reports.
Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke's University Health Network will expand its use of Masimo remote patient monitoring technologies that transfer data directly to the health system's Epic EHR.
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System and One Medical, a primary care, membership-based clinic group in San Francisco, formed an agreement to increase EHR interoperability among healthcare providers and expand care services to patients in New York, Benefits Pro reports.
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DrChrono, an EHR, medical billing and practice management software developer, is offering a free trial of its mobile, cloud-based EHR platform.
Bay Spring, Miss.-based Jasper General Hospital will go live on an Evident EHR in May.
CMS and ONC's recently released interoperability rules will give patients more power and access over their medical data, leading the shift to consumer-driven competition in healthcare, David Blumenthal, MD, former National Coordinator for Health IT, wrote in an article for Harvard…
Mercy Medical Center—Des Moines (Iowa) formed a multiyear agreement with TransformativeMed, a digital solutions developer that embeds specialized clinical workflows into Cerner's EHR, to enhance diabetes management.
As the use of EHRs has increased within health systems, some patients have expressed concern about privacy and accuracy issues, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's January 2019 Health Tracking Poll.