EHRs

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

The EMR has been both a blessing and a curse. It does offer some conveniences, such as remote charting and automation of some workflows, however, it's another piece of healthcare technology that, for the most part, has not taken the…

Ursula Rogers, senior informaticist at Duke Forge, penned an April 4 blog post on why the health data sciences center's unofficial motto is "free the data."

An EHR-based tool deployed by Cambridge University Hospitals in the U.K. has shown promising results in diagnosing patients who show symptoms of sepsis, the hospital announced April 4.

Kern Medical, an acute care teaching hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., will deploy the Cerner Millennium integrated EHR and Cerner HealtheIntent big data and insights platform for population health management.

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health entered into an agreement with eHealth Technologies in February to integrate diagnostic images into its myBaystateHealth patient portal.

The ONC published an online guide April 4 to educate patients and caregivers on how to access and use their health information.

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…