EHRs

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.

The Premier healthcare alliance will spend $86 million in the next three years for enhancement of IT to accommodate accountable care organizations and other new delivery models under health reform, according to a Premier news release.

CareFusion, a global medical device company, and Cerner Corp., a global provider of healthcare solutions and services, have announced an agreement to improve data communication between CareFusion Pyxis medication dispensing, supply and anesthesiology systems, and CareAware, Cerner's integrated device connectivity…

Medicity, the nation's largest clinical health information exchange vendor, announced that it is collaborating with Emdeon, the nation's largest financial and administrative health information exchange solution provider, to create the first "converged" national health information exchange, according to a Medicity…

A recent report in Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology outlined five key barriers to healthcare providers' implementation of electronic health records as well as ways providers in Massachusetts were addressing these concerns.