EHRs

Teaneck, N.J.-based Holy Name Medical Center, a nonprofit healthcare facility, has selected CareCloud as its EHR and practice management partner for its outpatient locations.

Manchester, N.H.-based Catholic Medical Center selected the Allscripts CareInMotion platform to streamline care transitions, the company announced Oct. 17.

Zocdoc, an online scheduling service for healthcare organizations, integrated its platform with the Allscripts EHR, the company announced Oct. 17.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to attest to the meaningful use program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to June 2016 ONC data.

Georgia-based Jenkins County Medical Center and Mississippi-based Monroe Regional Hospital — both community hospitals — have contracted with Evident's Thrive EHR solution.

Researchers from five universities are urging physicians to reconsider their automated habits of ordering costly, often unnecessary lab tests and instead, opt for improved education and EHR use to inform these clinical decisions, based on findings from a recent study.

Healthcare practitioners ranked M*Modal, a clinical documentation solutions provider, No. 1 for medical transcription technology solutions and services, according to a Black Book report.

ONC approved the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's HIMSS-Immunization Integration Program as an alternative testing method to the Health IT Certification Program, according to an Oct. 17 blog post by Steven Posnack, director of the agency's Office of Standards…

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a public-private partnership founded in 2008, launched the NHIT Care Campaign to bring healthcare resources to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.

The number of closed medical malpractice claims in which EHRs were a contributing factor has increased significantly over the past 10 years, according to a new study by The Doctors Company, the nation's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer.