EHRs

A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society subsidiary recognized Pagosa Springs (Colo.) Medical Center for its EMR initiatives.

Travis Dalton, a senior vice president and general manager at Cerner, provided an update Feb. 28 on the U.S. Department of Defense's EHR rollout.

Lawton, Okla.-based Comanche County Memorial Hospital plans to go-live on an acute care EHR and revenue cycle management platform from eClinicalWorks within the next 12 months.

Healthcare providers are ramping up for the transition to value-based care, but do they have the tools to match? More than half say "no", according to a recent Sage Growth Partners study.

Epic approved Healthwise's patient education app for its App Orchard, Healthwise confirmed Feb. 27.

Epic made xG Health Solutions' care management content available within its population health management software, Epic Healthy Planet, earlier this year.

Primary care physicians spend a large proportion of their time working on the EHR, including an additional seven minutes on the system per patient after hours, according to a study published in Family Medicine.

Meditech is rolling out a new, web-based EHR called Expanse designed for the post-meaningful use era, the company announced Feb. 27.

A team of researchers successfully programmed clinical decision support systems in EHRs to flag safety-net patients at risk of hypertension, according to a study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

Of 300 million prior authorization requests rejected at the pharmacy each year, 36 percent are abandoned, according to a recent report by CoverMyMeds.