EHRs

U.S. physicians want to see changes to the current EHR, according to research by Stanford (Calif.) Medicine and a survey by The Harris Poll.

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

OpenNotes has added Karen DeSalvo, MD, former national coordinator for health IT, to its advisory board.

Island Hospital in Anacortes, Wash., successfully implemented Meditech Expanse EHR platform May 1.

The state of Illinois Procurement and Policy Board found no violation in the University of the Illinois Health's EHR contracting process at  a hearing May 28, a spokesperson for the state of Illinois told Becker's Hospital Review.

The latest challenge from HHS' ONC — dubbed Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge — asks developers to build tools that help end users easily report potential health IT safety issues.

The OpenNotes movement poses a particular set of ethical concerns for physicians treating pediatric and adolescent patients, according to a recent article published in the journal Pediatrics.

Community Care of West Virginia, a federally qualified health center based in Rock Cave, leverages patient data from EHRs to drive one of its off-site population health interventions, according to an athenaInsight blog post.

Three physicians outlined the benefits of a recent IT intervention deployed at Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine in an op-ed for The New England Journal of Medicine.

Saint Francis Hospital Muskogee (Okla.) is implementing the Epic EHR system, according to a Muskogee Phoenix report.