Clinical

A new report from ECRI Institute says suboptimal EHR management and CDS implementation pose safety risks to patients. It also raises concerns about patient identification and clinical process improvement activities.

The hospital's multidisciplinary care teams track patients in real-time and can mount interventions to correct lagging performance. And Mass General’s clinical director of population informatics Adrian Zai, MD, said that doctors like the program.

The lack of adequate EHR interoperability continues to hinder healthcare organizations ability to use patient data in care delivery, the report’s author said. 

Researchers will use the funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to employ pharmaceutical claims and EHR data in their effort to both reduce the impact of pain and cut down down on opioid abuse.

Convincing doctors to embrace EHRs and other new tools takes data, Mayo Clinic chief executive John Noseworthy said, and once they see the impact and the value they will move much more quickly. 

Hospitals in New York are finding big quality and efficiency gains thanks to the ability to access patient EHR data via a regional health information exchange.

The report claims the biotech mogul used charitable donations to benefit his health tech company.

The new company will focus on taking the variations out of care delivery and costs. 

The platform enables oncologists to identify evidence-based treatment regimens for patients through integration of NantHealth’s eviti platform and Allscripts’ Sunrise EHR.

Varian will use the Linguamatics Health platform to extract unstructured concepts from within pathology reports and convert them to discrete data for analytics within Varian 360 Oncology.