EHRs

The Rothman Index (PeraHealth). The Rothman Index translates EHR data into a health score that represents a patient’s overall condition. The index provides score updates in real time throughout the patient’s entire hospital stay.       RETURN TO FULL…

POC Advisor (Wolters Kluwer Health and Vocera Communications). POC Advisor is a clinical intelligence platform from Wolters Kluwer that aggregates, normalizes and analyzes patient data from disparate clinical systems. The technology is designed to drive early detection with predictive accuracy.…

Novant Health and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, both based in Winston-Salem, N.C., introduced a collaborative effort to share patient information with one another Jan. 14, the Winston-Salem Journal reports.

A research team from Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University published findings in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association suggesting EHR data is a useful tool for clinical workflow analysis.

Shelbyville, Ind.-based Major Health Partners plans to deploy the Meditech Web EHR, the EHR vendor confirmed Jan. 19.

The Department of Veterans Affairs' contract with Cerner has been put on pause until the completion of an independent assessment addressing the agency's interoperability requirements of the EHR concludes, VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, said Wednesday.

Illinois rejected a protest filed by Cerner over the Chicago-based University of Illinois Health's $62 million contract awarded to Epic, according to The News-Gazette.

Family physicians who work with medical scribes report increased benefits related to quality of care and "joy of practice," according to a study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

The success of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) depends in part on how well providers are able to share pertinent information about their patients.

Physicians take higher-quality and more efficient notes when they receive education and guidelines that emphasis note-taking best practices, according to a UC-Los Angeles study.