ONC launched phase 2 of its precision medicine research program Sync for Genes during the 2018 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition, which took place March 5 to March 9 in Las Vegas.
EHRs / Interoperability
All four major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices fall last week.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic rolled out an application to flag actionable data for clinicians working in intensive care units, three of the health system's physicians wrote in an article for Harvard Business Review.
U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., ranking member of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, recently cited a $16 billion figure for the VA's EHR implementation project, a significant increase from…
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.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' EHR contract with Cerner is unlikely to succeed in its interoperability and usability goals, according to a Brookings Institution blog post.
Athenahealth added two more applications to its "More Disruption Please" program, which is available to athenahealth's nearly 111,000 healthcare providers.
In an op-ed for Fortune March 19, former Vice President Joe Biden argued the Trump administration's recently unveiled MyHealthEData initiative lacks specific details needed for effective implementation.
Standard data included in patient EHRs may be able to predict which hospitalized patients are at risk for chronic opioid use following discharge, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
While the integration of EHRs into America's health system aimed to advance the practice of good medicine and improve patient safety, the technology's rapid adoption occurred with little insight from providers, causing unforeseen shortcomings that have compromised productivity and the…