Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Hospira, the developer of infusion technologies, is partnering with Iatric Systems to work toward better interoperability between Hospira's smart infusion pumps and electronic medical records.

The network enables providers to access clinical records wherever they exist, and to see where patients have historically received care.

The Office of the National Coordinator for IT released its Interoperability Standards Advisory for 2017, collecting essential standards and implementation specifications for technology developers and clinicians to know.

CMS says it will reduce reimbursements to the providers that don't meet meaningful use by as much as 3 percent.

Precision medicine is promising, but integrating genomics with EHRs and workflow poses challenges. The technology for testing is the easy part. Putting the results into a usable format for clinicians can be more problematic, says Inova's John Deeken, MD.   

An executive search will begin to replace Steve Lieber who led the organization through a period of significant growth. 

The roadmap is designed to improve the exchange of critical health data between healthcare entities within states.

Chief Medical Officer Todd Rothenhaus said the company is working on an ROI guarantee as it moves into the post-EHR era of population health and care coordination. 

A new report compiled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that a steep drop in hospital-acquired conditions has accompanied a decrease of 3 million adverse events in the past five years.

The 'No More Ransom' campaign, established by Intel Security, Kaspersky Lab, Europol and the Dutch National police in July, expanded again with the addition of 34 new partners and 32 new decryptors, Europol announced.