Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The web-based tools, with advice on how the new law will affect reimbursement, do not require AMA membership.

Research firm IDC found big variations in analytic capabilities and technological sophistication among today’s leading population health management vendors, approximately half of which are electronic health records companies.

The venture capital firm has already invested in Redox, founded by former Epic employees, as well as upstarts focusing on analytics, billing, and cloud-based machine learning.

New Jersey Spine Center was attacked by Cryptowall, which locked up its EHR, backups and phone system. Marin Healthcare District in California lost two weeks of backup data during restoration.

Oxford, Mississippi-based Urgent Care Clinic of Oxford reported it was a victim of a ransomware attack, which appears to have been initiated by Russian hackers.

"The voices of regulation, defensive medicine, billing and quality measure reporting have been so loud that the primary reason for documentation has been ignored," said Peter Basch, MD, of MedStar Health in Washington.

Mostashari, now the chief executive at Aledade, discusses how technology must better address the needs of population health and ACOs, and wages a complaint against many EHR vendors.

A look at how respondents view electronic health records from nine vendors differently than they did last year. 

Epic beat Cerner, MEDITECH, McKesson, Allscripts and others again in Healthcare IT News EHR Satisfaction Survey 2016. The big surprise? Most, but not all, of the vendors fared better this time than in 2015.

One of the largest healthcare providers in Hawaii, it's only the second two-time winner of the Enterprise Davies Award since the inception of the program in 1994.