EHR

Legislation
Legislators float 'common sense' solution to ease EHR meaningful use burden
By Tom Sullivan | 12:28 pm | July 05, 2017
The bipartisan bill would eliminate HITECH Act requirements that HHS make attesting to meaningful use harder to achieve.
EHR
Allina Health extends OpenNotes to 500,000 patients
By Tom Sullivan | 02:22 pm | June 30, 2017
The hospitals consumers can now read what doctors write about them, message care teams and participate in eVisits.
Workflow
The healthcare industry is having a usability-heavy moment
By Adam Bazer | 12:18 pm | June 30, 2017
Transforming healthcare usability must include standardization to evaluate effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction.
EHR
Cerner, Epic shops begin electronic exchange of patient records
By Bernie Monegain | 05:16 pm | June 29, 2017
Competitors Novant Health, Carolinas HealthCare say it boosts patient safety.
EHR
Best-of-breed still tops in the interactive patient system space, KLAS says
By Mike Miliard | 04:03 pm | June 29, 2017
Cerner and Epic have their own IPS products, but most hospitals are sticking with dedicated vendors.
EHR
Weill Cornell uses HL7 to help integrate structured genomic data into Epic EHR
By Mike Miliard | 04:05 pm | June 28, 2017
Moving beyond the PDF, the medical center enables precision CDS for advanced oncology.
EHR
Philips to purchase medical device maker Spectranetics for $2.2 billion
By Bernie Monegain | 03:01 pm | June 28, 2017
Merger expected to speed the growth of image-guided therapy devices for cardiac and peripheral vascular disease.
Regulation
Senate demands timeline on Cerner EHR project for VA, DoD
By Jessica Davis | 04:18 pm | June 27, 2017
Expressing concerns about risks related to cost and implementation delays, three Republican senators pressed the agencies for assurances the new platforms will be interoperable.
EHR
With Apple consulting Argonaut Project on health records, interoperability could get the push it ne…
By Mike Miliard | 10:33 am | June 27, 2017
Collaborative chief says aggregating your records on iPhone could lead consumers to solve the interoperability problem themselves.
EHR
Interoperability shouldn't have fueled VA's Cerner decision, HL7 exec says
By Jessica Davis | 05:15 pm | June 26, 2017
While the group’s CTO Wayne Kubick supports the move from an outdated, custom platform to a commercial EHR, organizations don’t need to be on the same platform to be interoperable, he said.