EHR

With federal spending priorities in flux, and VistA technology issues still to be ironed out, one expert parses out what we might expect in the weeks ahead.

Precision medicine is no longer just a buzzword, so teams must prime their infrastructure and educate clinicians now.

That goes for the way CMS serves its constituents as well as how it work with ONC in thinking about more usable and less burdensome EHRs.

Epic chief Judy Faulkner ended the meeting with GE execs after 5 minutes with a firm “no,” and kept the electronic health record software vendor private to this day.

Managed services allow organizations to offload routine IT tasks and to ensure they are getting the maximum value from their investment in their own IT team.

Company’s services and technology are designed to help health systems uncover and address variations in procedures, the better to improve care and cut costs.

The CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization says its population health platform has helped manage disparate data, but he still wishes vendors and payers would help manage the burden of value-based care.

Penn Medicine and Cancer Centers of America are deploying clinical pathways technologies and Mercy already saved 480 lives and $27 million by connecting them with its Epic electronic health record.

New data suggests that the EHR makers vary when it comes to enabling hospitals to collect EHR reimbursement dollars under meaningful use and the authors advise picking a vendor wisely.

The aim of the core measures is to refocus the agency's regimen of quality metrics on high-quality healthcare and meaningful outcomes for patients, according to the agency.