A group of experts at the UC San Francisco Center for Digital Health Innovation are pushing for what they call a connected health record amid the debate on whether the EHR should instead be a comprehensive health record.
EHRs / Interoperability
Many American healthcare consumers have no idea where their medical data is kept, which is concerning in an era where data breaches occur at alarming rates, according to a recent ScalaMed survey.
Nearly 80 percent of providers close patient files within 72 hours of an encounter, according to the Medical Group Management Association's latest Stat poll.
Cerner, which lost out on an EHR contract at Chicago-based University of Illinois Health in late 2017, claims the hospital's contract with Epic will cost taxpayers nearly $100 million in excess costs, according to NBC Chicago.
Forty-four percent of U.S. residents have accessed their EHR, while 32 percent say they do not have an EHR, according to Accenture's 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.
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One of the four major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices fall last week.
Medsphere Systems Corp., is taking its CareVue EHR to Amazon Web Services, the company announced March 8.
Later this year, Blue Shield of California will mandate network providers participate in Manifest MedEx, the state's nonprofit health information network.
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 federal government is ready to achieve interoperability, and its taking a "whole of government" approach to make that happen, Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, said March 6 according to Nextgov.