EHR

Some security leaders are increasing their response effectiveness through automating security tasks, the survey finds.

An electronic medical record implementation requires accuracy and precision. And making that happen demands a variety of skillsets, professional backgrounds and expertise. Here’s what worked for Penn Medicine. 

Five Queensland Health hospitals were forced back to pencil and paper after the IT failure, and the system will likely remain sluggish for at least a week.

IDC report says cloud services are transforming IT departments into lines of business as they acquire daily operations tasks instead of carrying them out on their own.

The HIE aggregates clinical information from Epic and AllScripts EHRs, but plans are underway to include all electronic health record systems.

Zane Burke told investors said that the same EHR technology used for subs can benefit rural providers that are often in regions with scarce connectivity.

The funding increase will support the agency’s efforts and expand on private-public partnerships, the VA Secretary told a House committee Wednesday.

Stanford Medicine, UC San Francisco University of Chicago Medicine to help Google Brain fine-tune predictive analytics to spot patterns in EHRs.

HIMSS, AHIMA, AMIA all say the drastic cuts to ONC and other agencies will hamper patient safety and new cures, send innovation in a downward spiral and slow down work toward a learning health system.

But the former ONC chief thinks consumerism will play a major role in promoting data exchange.