The ONC published an online guide April 4 to educate patients and caregivers on how to access and use their health information.
EHRs / Interoperability
Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to July 2017 ONC data.
The U.S. Department of State issued a request for information on a new EHR in the aftermath of its failed joint Epic rollout with the Coast Guard, according to Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.
Patient portals offer an appealing way to engage patients in their own medical care, but some industry experts wonder whether lab results released without clinical interpretation cause confusion for patients and more work for physicians, according to an analysis by…
EHR use hasn't led to improvements in care quality or medical outcomes for heart failure patients, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
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Robert Wachter, MD, professor and chair of the department of medicine at San Francisco-based UCSF School of Medicine, and Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, associate professor of public health sciences at Charlottesville-based University of Virginia, outlined three ways to improve EHRs in…
Four researchers affiliated with various Veterans Affairs facilities across the U.S. developed a program to reduce "low-value" EHR notifications, according to study results published in BMJ Quality & Safety.
Poor EHR design imposes challenges for primary care practices to generate the required reports for federal value-based payment programs, according to a study published April 2 in Health Affairs.
Cedar Rapids-based Physicians' Clinic of Iowa is transitioning to the eClinicalWorks EHR solution for its 84 providers.
Princeton-based Illinois Rural Community Care Organization, a statewide ACO comprised of 24 critical access and small rural hospitals, will implement Cerner HealtheIntent to coordinare care for the state's nearly 20,000 Medicare patients.