EHRs

An Illinois state board determined April 17 there is evidence of a conflict of interest regarding an EHR implementation contract between Epic and Chicago-based University of Illinois Hospitals, according to NBC 5.

Department of Veterans Affairs CIO Scott Blackburn resigned from the agency, effective immediately, according to Federal News Radio.

A 75-year-old obstetrician at Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based St. Alexius Medical Center who has delivered tens of thousands of babies is hanging up his hospital coat after refusing to take classes and learn the hospital's new computer system, Daily Herald reports.

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."