Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

AI has the potential to search through volumes of EHR data to find clinical trial candidates, says Robert Stillman, director of clinical and research informatics at the Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center.

Patients want more trust, transparency and information sharing from healthcare organizations to guide them in their complex healthcare journey, says Grace Cordovano, founder of Enlightening Results.

Also, the South Korean government is helping expedite the approval of a VR-based therapy for treating visual impairment.

"VA medical centers still operating the Oracle Cerner EHR need more personnel and resources; not less," said Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash.

Native Americans face health disparities and interoperability challenges that make modernizing EHRs in tribal communities a critical need, according to Mitchell Thornbrugh, CIO of the Indian Health Service.

Epic achieved the only net positive change across electronic health record vendors, but Oracle Health had the highest growth in the small hospital market, according to the new study.

Epic announces the first cohort of health systems, including Mount Sinai, Mayo Clinic, Kaiser, Johns Hopkins and Stanford Health, to join the nationwide interoperability framework.  

The move from paper records is part of the ongoing transition to an integrated statewide EMR system.

The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association says it has substantial concerns with regulatory deadlines and other stipulations in ONC's proposed interoperability and AI transparency rule.

Standardizing information capture, including a universal patient identification, can enhance data quality while eliminating the 20% record duplication rate facing healthcare organizations, says Gregg Church, president of 4medica.