EHR

Tech, policy and an ecosystem of smartphone platforms are all cause to be very optimistic, says Ricky Bloomfield, MD.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's charity is looking for startups to develop tech for healthcare.

The hospital hopes that 18 months of intensive training, with help from more than 100 experienced volunteers, will pay dividends as clinicians make use of the new integrated record.

The hospitals already run the vendor’s Patient Administration System and will now be implementing its Electronic Patient Record software.

CMS is also seeking Blue Button 2.0 app developers, Verma says at second interoperability forum hosted by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT in Washington, D.C.

Rival EHR vendors have differing plans for 2018, with Allscripts diversifying its product portfolio and Cerner focusing on two landmark EHR modernizations that could have industry-wide gravitational pull.

The health system is ahead of the curve in routinely working genetics into primary care, and patient-shared genomic data has found a home in its EHR for physicians to reference.

More than 360 global Meditech customers have now migrated to the company's new web-based EHR, and private hospital Galway Clinic has become the first organisation in UK and Ireland to go live with the platform.

CommonWell Executive Director Jitin Asnaani says they are on track to make this generally available this summer.

Offices using the technology from his company, LabFinder.com, report receiving 64 percent fewer phone tag calls, and say office staff feel less overwhelmed.