EHRs

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services plans to become the first independent, free-standing behavioral health system in the U.S. to partner with Epic.

Patients — not physicians and hospitals — deserve to own their personal medical data, according to Eric Topol, MD, director of La Jolla, Calif.-based Scripps Translational Science Institute.

EHRs and paper records tend to offer different benefits and drawbacks in terms of content, process and structure, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Three university hospitals in Belgium — University Hospitals of Antwerp, Gent and St. Lucas Hospital Gent — are implementing Cerner Millennium EHR.

For hospitals that did not achieve meaningful use and did not receive a hardship exception in the Medicare Electronic EHR Incentive Program for the 2016 reporting period, the deadline to apply for reconsideration of the 2018 payment adjustment is Nov.…

Collecting personal and sensitive data on patients — including their sexual orientation — is important; however, it may take physicians' time away from health-focused questions, writes Dr. Ann Robinson, a London-based general practitioner, in an op-ed for The Guardian.

The American Medical Association founded a collaborative effort between the healthcare and technology sectors to develop a common data model, the group announced Oct. 16.

Cerner President Zane Burke discussed the health IT company's data sharing efforts at the Cerner Health Conference in Kansas City, Mo., according to an Oct. 11 Cerner blog post.

Rather than waiting for vendors to make EMR add-ons commercially available, leading hospitals have increasingly begun to integrate their own improvements into the products, two officials from Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center wrote in an op-ed published in Harvard Business…

The ability to aggregate information across disparate data sources is the foundation of population health management. However, there are a variety of steps needed to fully aggregate data — steps which healthcare organizations are still working to deploy, according to…