EHRs / Interoperability

EMRs are an expensive clerical burden that haven't fulfilled their promise to use  meaningful data to inform better patient care, and EMR vendors have profited at the expense of the physician-patient relationship, Jamie Wells, MD, writes in an op-ed for…

Chapel Hill-based University of North Carolina Health Care received Stage 7 designation within the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model.

Both commercial and federal health plans engage in various practices that complicate the emergency department revenue cycle, says Ed Gaines, JD, chief compliance officer at Zotec Partners.

Most hospitals sit on the second-highest level of the EMR Adoption Model, an eight-stage roadmap developed by Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society subsidiary HIMSS Analytics.

About 30 percent of  physician practices say they are expecting to implement a new EHR system by 2021 because they'd like to customize the system to best meet their needs, according to a recent Black Book Research report.

One of the three major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices fall last week.

The National Academy of Medicine published a report titled "Optimizing Strategies for Clinical Decision Support."

Netsmart, an EHR solutions and services provider, launched a cloud-based EHR geared toward home health and senior living communities.

Munising (Mich.) Memorial Hospital is implementing Cerner's Millennium EHR platform across its hospital and clinic.

Roughly half of patients nationwide (52 percent) have been offered online access to their medical record by a health provider or insurer as of 2017, up from 42 percent in 2014, according to an ONC data brief released this month.