Military Health System to delay rollout of Cerner EHR (updated)
The first rollout was to begin in December at a Seattle-area naval hospital, but that will be pushed back to 2017.
The first rollout was to begin in December at a Seattle-area naval hospital, but that will be pushed back to 2017.
The vendor sent a specific notice via the EHR to 94 clinicians at 24 different athenahealth clients, serving 1,800 at-risk patients in the affected area of Miami.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Sanford Health, a 43-hospital health system based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has contracted with Bellevue, Washington-based Translational Software to provide pharmacogenomics services to its hospitals and nearly 250 clinics in nine states.
A consumer-facing mobile and Web app allows patients to take photos of skin conditions and send the images to their physicians securely. It's not live, but rather store-and-forward technology.
This would bring the EHR incentive program more in line with proposed rules for implementing MACRA, to be phased in starting next year.
If the the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) EHR Adoption Model recalls the HIMSS Analytics EMRAM scale, it's not a coincidence.
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
In the long term, system designers are trying to better consider the nuances of a patient’s medical needs so that they can use fewer warnings and send them only when they matter.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently held its annual meeting and issued new guidelines for interoperability among electronic health record (EHR) systems.
It would make sense for healthcare providers to show these videos on monitors in waiting rooms, on tablets for patient registration and on their websites.
That number may be a tad misleading, however, because possession of an EHR system means the hospital has a signed contract with a vendor. It doesn't mean the system is in place.
Also, why it's been so difficult to get patients to become healthcare consumers, plus more Valeant drama is on the horizon.
Wednesday, a bipartisan group of representatives and senators introduced a succinct bill that would shorten the Meaningful Use reporting period to 90 days for 2016 only, rather than the full year.
The organization is proceeding with the new, $764 million Epic EHR project despite the warnings of Dr. Charles Perry, ex-CMIO of the first two hospitals to go live.
The new InLight EHR, based on technology licensed from Massachusetts General Hospital, can trace its roots back to informatics pioneers Dr. Octo Barnett and Dr. Larry Weed.
The ex-CMIO of two New York City public hospitals so hated the way the city's health department was rolling out an EHR system that he quoted the official report of the 1986 Challenger disaster in his resignation letter.