EHRs / Interoperability

Northern Valley Indian Health in California will swap out its current EHR for a system from eClinicalWorks, the health IT vendor confirmed May 9.

Even before EHRs became physicians' No. 1 frustration, physicians were just as burnt out as they are today, according to a comparison of contemporary studies with one from The Kaiser Family Foundation in 2002.

U.S.-based physicians spend much more time jotting down patients' clinical notes than physicians practicing overseas, according to research published in an editorial for theAnnals of Internal Medicine.

At its Google I/O 2018 conference, CEO Sundar Pichai shared how Google is betting on artificial intelligence to sort through the vast amounts of data in EMRs and predict better health outcomes, according to ZDNet.

Meditech Holdings on May 8 unveiled plans to launch Meditech UK, an entity focused on supporting customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit focused on healthcare interoperability, unveiled plans to spearhead a nationwide health IT disasters response platform May 7.

Epic approved Excel Medical's patient surveillance and predictive algorithm platform for its App Orchard, Excel Medical confirmed May 8.

In January, Apple unveiled plans to integrate patient health records into the iPhone's Health app, with an initial 12 hospitals piloting the new service.

Elliott Management made an all-cash offer for athenahealth at $160 per share, according to a letter the investment management firm sent to athenahealth's management team May 7.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, spoke with STAT reporter Meghana Keshavan about his background and scientific interests during the Milken Institute's Global Conference 2018, which took place April 29 through May 2 in Los Angeles.