Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Chief Information Officer for Health and Care in England Will Smart speaks at the UK e-Health Week conference about the new Local Health and Care Record Exemplar programme expected to underpin the move towards a ‘data-led’ NHS.

The activation of a fire suppression system of one of the health system’s data centers on Monday shut down its Epic EHR and other information systems.

Activist investor blasts cloud-based EHR company for not responding a week after receiving the notice.

Hospitals have a complex web of electronic health record vendors but once data sharing broadens it will open the door to innovation.

The American Medical Association's Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium seeks to train new physicians with EHRs, pop health and value-based care in mind.

eHealth Exchange will become both a member of Carequality and an implementer of its standards, helping expand its presence to other participants.

But Epic leads in the physician office sector, according to the new report, and GE is now among the top four electronic health record vendors.

The report points to usability, cybersecurity, user training, help desk among reasons to delay implementation.

As hospitals collect patient data they must characterize it well, apply new technologies – and practice what Cleveland Clinic’s Paul Ford calls "human medicine."

Hospitals should expect orders of magnitude more data, with emerging tools, to put information to work.