EHRs

Chicago-based Land of Lincoln Health, a health insurance co-op, has let go of the University of Chicago Medical Center, according to the Chicago Tribune.

In midst of the massive Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina system failure, one customer went to the local media with a story about his refusal to back down, according to ABC 11.

Over the past week, Chapel Hill-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has been under fire for technical problems resulting in what company executives are calling the most serious system failure in recent decades.

Thousands of Blue Cross Blue Shield customers in North Carolina can expect refunds this week as it scrambles to fix what company officials are calling the most serious system failure in recent decades, according to the Charlotte Observer.

As the open enrollment deadline looms, one of North Carolina's largest health insurers is experiencing customer service problems, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Merge Healthcare, an electronic medical imaging company purchased by IBM in August, has joined forces with health information service provider MedAllies to advance interoperable medical image ordering and delivery for the nearly 300,000 physicians using its platform.

Pulse Systems Inc., an industry provider of EHR, Practice Management and RCM solutions,  released its 2015 Physician Quality Reporting System registry tool to help medical practices meet PQRS reporting standards.

HIMSS Analytics has awarded Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital the Stage 7 award of its EMR Adoption Model, the highest level on the adoption model scale.

Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Ala., has achieved HIMSS' Stage 7 Ambulatory Award, becoming the only hospital in the state to do so.

  Electronic health record (EHR) system implementation is one of the largest IT investments most healthcare systems have ever made but it’s success is largely dependent upon the data which feeds it. One the main data sources for the EHR…