EHRs
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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.
Redox, an interoperability startup founded by Epic engineers, received $33 million in a new round of financing, TechCrunch reports.
Patients suffer treatment delays and are sometimes forced to undergo medical tests they have already completed when they switch providers, infectious diseases specialist Pranay Sinha, MD, wrote in WBUR.
Most hospitals, 95 percent, have adopted an EHR, but system data is used differently by hospitals depending on their chosen vendor, according to an ONC analysis.
Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina researchers developed a digital messaging tool that allows patients to send radiologists questions about imaging results within the EHR, Radiology Business reports.
An estimated 1,400 developers are using CMS' application programming interface Blue Button 2.0 to create apps geared toward improving Medicare patients' EHR access, FedScoop reports.
NYC Health + Hospitals debuted an Epic EHR at two hospitals in New York City and 17 ambulatory care clinics in Brooklyn as part of the health system's $1 billion IT platform rollout.