EHRs

EHR data provides rich insights about a population that public agencies may benefit from greatly, however special attention must be paid to HIPAA when requesting and sharing such data.

iPatientCare's EHR solution received the 2015 ONC health IT certification from the Drummond Group, an ONC-authorized certification body.

Large medical practices with a higher-grade of meaningful use of health IT were more engaged in reporting quality data and ultimately performed at a higher level on quality and cost measures in the first year of Medicare's Value-Based Payment Modifier program,…

The EHR Association penned a letter Nov. 20 in response to CMS Administrator Seema Verma's request for feedback on a "new direction" for the agency's innovation center in September.

Boston-based Steward Health Care System entered into an agreement with Meditech to deploy the vendor's web EHR at eight hospitals, Meditech announced Dec. 5.

Former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt said during a Nov. 30 Q&A discussion the shortest meeting of his career was with Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic, during the mid-1990s, according to Xconomy.

ONC expects to release a draft of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement in December, Genevieve Morris, ONC principal deputy told stakeholders at the agency's annual meeting last week, according to FedScoop.

A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society subsidiary recognized Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health Care for its EMR initiatives, the health system announced Nov. 30.

Health IT leaders have been eagerly awaiting a multibillion-dollar contract between the Department of Veterans Affairs and EHR vendor Cerner since the agency announced the North Kansas City, Mo.-based supplier would replace its homegrown VistA software in June, but they'll…

Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Brown Mills, N.J., is implementing the Meditech 6.1.5 EHR system. The hospital will go live on the new system Dec. 1.