EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
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…
A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society subsidiary recognized Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children for its EMR initiatives.
Cincinnati-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio added University of Cincinnati Medical Center to its Medicare Advantage provider network.
Mammoth Lakes, Calif.-based Mammoth Hospital is planning to implement Cerner's EHR system, according to a Sierra Wave Media report.
In 2016, nearly 82 percent of patients accessed their EHRs through a patient portal — a significant increase from 2013 when less than 5 percent had taken advantage of it — according to a survey released at the American Health…