EHRs

Using an electronic system for communication between primary care providers and specialists may help improve specialty care access for underserved patients, a recent study suggests.

Practice Fusion (San Francisco). Practice Fusion is a cloud-based EHR platform designed for physicians and patients with more than 30,000 active users and facilitating 5 million patient visits per month. Practice Fusion has a dog-friendly office with on-site yoga and…

Medicare Advantage organizations have some work to do to repair inaccuracies in their online provider directories, according to a CMS report.

Brian Tew. Vice President of Information Technology and CIO of Greater Hudson Valley Health System (Middletown, N.Y.). Mr. Tew was vice president of operations and CIO of Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., before joining Greater Hudson Valley Health System.…

Charlotte Wray, RN, MSN. President of University Hospitals Elyria (Ohio) Medical Center. Ms. Wray was appointed president of University Hospitals Elyria Medical Center in 2015, after serving as the hospital’s vice president of clinical operations, information systems and chief clinical…

Botched data entry may be to blame for why details of some Illinois health plans offered on the federal exchange this open enrollment are inaccurate, Chicago Tribune reports.

In a recent press release, athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based services and mobile applications for medical groups and health systems, announced its leadership position in the 2016 KLAS Interoperability Report.

In an attempt to solve payment disputes, UnitedHealthcare and North Mississippi Health Services will share electronic payment information and research, Daily Journal reports.

The board of commissioners at IslandHospital in Anacortes, Wash., has approved an agreement to implement MEDITECH's EHR, reports Go Anacortes. The implementation will cost about $12 million over the next seven years.

Amid a shift toward value-based care, some of Montana's largest healthcare systems and its biggest health insurer are teaming up to establish a pilot program to efficiently and securely share patient medical information, the Billings Gazette reports.