Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, eClinicalWorks Founder Girish Navani and Cerner President Zane Burke talk about expanding their technology platforms and, in so doing, shedding a certain three-letter acronym.

Epic president Carl Dvorak said that the new service could be a game changer in terms of vendor-neutral search. 

CEO Jonathan Bush said athenaInsight will mine the company’s network of providers and patients to determine what works at high-performing hospitals as well as the drivers of physician engagement and public health trends.

The newly-minted National Coordinator for Health IT offered his thoughts on interoperability, quality reporting, privacy and security, EHR certification, innovation and more.

The platform integrates with the health system's 22 inpatient and outpatient care centers to improve patient-provider communication and improved access to medical records.

The hospital system intends to streamline billing and clinical documentation, give patients a single record and use that to analyze population-level data, officials said.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is launching a central data repository for public health agency and clinical data registry reporting.

Hospital officials said operations are returning to normal while the cyberattack remains under FBI investigation. 

The hospital system said it will deploy Epic’s Healthy Planet to enable clinicians to gather patient information across multiple data sources and perform sophisticated analytics on that information.

"As I've said many times, one of the great challenges we have is that the 2015 Edition final rule has an enormous scope extending beyond meaningful use with the notion that it can be coupled to every government healthcare IT program," writes John Halamka, MD.