Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The electronic health record maker has built out its suite to enable integration with third-party apps and competing EHR systems, its chief executive said. 

athenahealth’s CEO said that hospital executives should stop tolerating software that users hate and, instead, demand a new set of core competencies from their technology vendors. And he pointed to Waze, Google and Kayak as examples to emulate. 

Chief Financial Officer Christian Pass said the company scrutinized tech spending to more effectively manage EHR disaster recovery and underlying operating systems.

The EHR vendor is also bringing the ‘Make More Money with Epic’ campaign, designed to highlight the value clients are reaping from Epic technology and how to replicate it.

DirectTrust CEO David Kibbe, MD, says the platform is helping connect 'hundreds of different vendors' EHR, PHR and other IT products,' as clinicians are coming up with new and innovative ways to use it.

HIMSS Analytics' most recent Essentials Brief offers a look back at health IT market trends in 2016 – and ahead to the rest of this year and beyond, projecting purchasing demand for 81 different applications in 2017 and 2018.  

Children's National Health System will roll out Millennium Revenue Cycle, a Cerner suite of RCM technology that will be integrated with the health system's existing Cerner EHR and scheduling platform.

Houston Methodist replaced best-of-breed clinical applications with an integrated EHR. The successful transition involved managing not just technology but, equally as important, employees across multiple teams. Here’s a look at lessons learned. 

How do duplicate records impact patient outcomes? Lenovo Health dives into the risks and how they impact everything from patient safety to revenue.

Former National Coordinator for Health IT: "Even though EHRs have proliferated, we have yet to achieve the interoperability, usability and full utility of them."