EHRs

For the 12th year in a row, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has elected to use McKesson Medical-Surgical's InterQual Criteria for its Medicare inpatient services auditing program, according to a McKesson news release.

HealthPort, a provider of information services and comprehensive audit management technology for the compliant exchange of personal health information, has received federal approval as an electronic health record module by the Drummond Group, according to a company release.

A study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine links an increase in CT scans in the emergency department to reductions in hospitalizations, according to a news release.

North American Partners in Anesthesia, the exclusive provider of anesthesia services for the North Shore-LIJ Health System, has announced it worked collaboratively with the health system in selecting Surgical Information Systems' (SIS) anesthesia information management system (AIMS).

When it comes to tracking technologies, hospitals are often advised to implement the tools systemwide to eliminate bottlenecks. But, that means hospitals are also waiting to implement these technologies in the OR, where they may be most valuable. In the…

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has selected five health systems to help test whether clinical decision support systems result in appropriate use of imaging services, according to an American Medical News report. The two-year demonstration will include physician…

Ohio State University Medical Center will spend $102 million on an electronic medical record system over the next five years, according to a Columbus Dispatch report. OSU hospital will use Epic, which it has first initiated at its outpatient facilities…

Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 first outlined the incentives providers would be able to receive for "meaningful use" of certified electronic health record technology, hospitals, physicians and other healthcare organizations have been gearing up and trying…

Hospitals that used electronic health records improved mortality rates but did not save money or reduce patient complications, a decade-long study of 326 California hospitals suggests, according to a report in the Arizona Republic.