EHR

Not only telehealth, but cloud-based EHRs and remote monitoring connectivity could all be affected by regulation rollbacks, Health Affairs says.

While the EHR vendor’s clients face tough choices, and the company itself may emerge looking different than it does today, the quagmire reveals hard realities that all hospitals have to grapple with.   

While evolving technology is paving the way, high drug costs, limited interoperability and physician skepticism need to be overcome.

Black Book and Chilmark say a host of electronic health record vendors stand to benefit if existing eClinicalWorks customers jump ship.

As part of a landmark settlement, the EHR vendor must transfer client data to rival EHR companies for free.

Misplaced records, medication module errors, flawed lab results tracking and security issues should have been taken more seriously, Brendan Delaney says. 

As if the hefty settlement fine execs had to pay wasn’t enough, the vendor also has to offer free upgrades, transfer customer’s data to rival EHR vendors for free, and employ an independent personal watchdog. 

The industry group calls on the HHS secretary to rein in the Office of the National Coordinator from unnecessarily burdensome regulatory authority.

Of thousands of Epic notes examined by UCSF researchers, just 18 percent were newly entered by clinicians.

CORHIO will launch its first use case in June, while a second use case centered around connected care management platform will launch at a later date.