EHRs

Jeffrey Hoffman, MD, is the chief medical information officer of Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children's Hospital, which has more than 1,300 medical personnel and saw 1.4 million patient visits in 2017.

Staff at North Conway, N.H.-based Memorial Hospital couldn't keep up with prescription refill requests during its December transition to an Epic EHR, The Conway Daily Sun reports.

A Government Accountability Office report determined the healthcare industry must do more to accurately match patients with their health records, and provided several potential solutions on how to do so.

Approaches to health information exchange that rely on shared EHRs or EHR vendor alliances may disadvantage smaller healthcare organizations using less popular IT systems, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.

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

Healthcare providers may legally own medical records, but patients own the information held within the record — posing a challenging ethical landscape for physicians to navigate, according to the most recent edition of the American College of Physicians' ethics manual.

St. Albans, Vt.-based Northwestern Medical Center went live on the CommonWell Health Alliance's interoperability service with support from its EHR vendor, Meditech.

Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, recently visited Epic's headquarters in Verona, Wis., to discuss her research — which is largely credited with uncovering the water crisis in Flint, Mich.

Lexington (Neb.) Regional Health Center signed a 10-year agreement with Cerner Jan. 14 to replace the disparate EHR systems in its hospital and three urgent care clinics.

Hospitals that have implemented value-based payment models are more likely to adopt technologies for population health, care coordination, data management and analytics, according to Deloitte's "Beyond the EHR" report.