EHRs
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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.
Shareholders have dropped three class-action lawsuits against athenahealth over the proposed sale of the company, the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter reports.
The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit research and policy organization, penned a letter Jan. 28 to ONC, encouraging the agency to prioritize EHR usability as it finalizes its strategy to reduce clinician burnout.
The EHR Association penned a letter Jan. 28 to HHS Secretary Alex Azar, providing feedback on a draft strategy the department released in November 2018.
The Texas Hospital Association is helping hospitals throughout the state add an additional layer of clinical decision support to their EHRs, the Houston Chronicle reports.
The American Medical Informatics Association penned a letter Jan. 28 to officials at HHS' ONC and CMS, encouraging the agencies to revisit aspects of the draft strategy they released in November 2018.
A team of three researchers described one approach to reduce clerical burden associated with EHR documentation in a recent ahead-of-print article published in Academic Medicine.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based political think tank, released a report Jan. 24 to recommend new policies that promote integrated clinical and mental healthcare in the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to hire a deputy CMO at its Office of EHR Modernization to help ensure the agency's Cerner records system is synchronized with the Defense Department's.
A federal judge on Jan. 25 ruled Epic's policy mandating employees bring wage disputes through individual arbitration is valid and does not violate state and federal law, Kenosha News reports.