EHRs

Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Memorial Health Care is getting ready to roll out an Epic EHR system, which will go live Oct. 1, reports MassLive.

Andrew Gettinger, MD, chief medical information officer and director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety for the ONC, expressed concern about patient safety in the design, implementation and execution of EHRs in a Patient Safety Network podcast.

Around 99 percent of U.S. hospitals had partially or completely implemented EHRs in 2016, up from 33.6 percent in 2003, according to survey results published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 may have spurred EHR adoption, but policymakers must acknowledge its role in diverting developers' focus from innovation, according to an op-ed in The New England Journal of Medicine…

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which Congress passed eight years ago, spurred EHR adoption. However, moving forward, federal efforts should center the need for data sharing between these electronic systems, according to an op-ed in…

A majority (64 percent) of skilled nursing facilities used EHRs in 2016, according to an ONC data brief.

Yale New Haven Health and Yale School of Medicine, both based in New Haven, Conn., integrated their EHRs with the state prescription drug monitoring program.

A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society subsidiary recognized Burlington, Mass.-based Lahey Health for its EMR initiatives.

The Urbana-based University of Illinois plans to roll out a $100 million IT expansion project at its hospital in Chicago, UI Hospital and Health Sciences System, reports The News-Gazette.

Lack of interoperability between healthcare facilities proved challenging for patients who sought care in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, according to an analysis by Wired science writer Megan Molteni.