EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., ranking member of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, recently cited a $16 billion figure for the VA's EHR implementation project, a significant increase from…
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 Veterans Affairs' EHR contract with Cerner is unlikely to succeed in its interoperability and usability goals, according to a Brookings Institution blog post.
Athenahealth added two more applications to its "More Disruption Please" program, which is available to athenahealth's nearly 111,000 healthcare providers.
In an op-ed for Fortune March 19, former Vice President Joe Biden argued the Trump administration's recently unveiled MyHealthEData initiative lacks specific details needed for effective implementation.
Standard data included in patient EHRs may be able to predict which hospitalized patients are at risk for chronic opioid use following discharge, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
While the integration of EHRs into America's health system aimed to advance the practice of good medicine and improve patient safety, the technology's rapid adoption occurred with little insight from providers, causing unforeseen shortcomings that have compromised productivity and the…
Emergency department physician Lee Milligan, MD, who also serves as the vice president and chief medical information officer at Medford, Ore.-based Asante, became a credentialed trainer to help his organization transition from paper records to the Epic EHR, and now,…
The Center for Medical Weight Loss teamed up with athenahealth to offer its platform for nonsurgical medical obesity treatment through athenahealth's 'More Disruption Please' program, the companies announced March 19.
All four major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices fall last week.