EHR

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT outlined several actionable steps that hospitals and doctors can take today to improve the process of requesting medical data to the benefit of both patients and providers.

National coordinator Donald Rucker said the agency is researching open APIs, such as those used by Facebook and Twitter, to advance health information sharing.

The son of Oklahoma farmers founded Cerner alongside Cliff Illig and Paul Gorup and built the company into one of the largest and leading EHR vendors.

But the EHR vendor says that clients own their data and can get it transferred back.

What summer lull? Headlines keep coming as the industry evolves.

The EHR company said its CEO died Sunday following complications after a recurrence of cancer.

The agency said clients that attested in good faith will not have to pay the money back despite the vendor’s $155 million settlement over alleged false claims.

The IVD Industry Connectivity Consortium published the new standard, LIVD, for mapping in vitro test results directly to codes used for procedures and results.

Defense Department tweets that it will roll out the electronic health record at a naval station in Washington State.

Epic was not even among the five electronic health records vendors to bid on the 10-year, $33 million deal.