EMR

Anti-Information Blocking Fines Are Coming Later This Summer — Here’s What You Need to Know

The OIG recently added some teeth to the anti-information blocking regulations laid out in the 21st Century Cures Act. The office finalized penalties, including fines of up to $1 million for health IT companies found blocking the electronic flow of health data. Interoperability expert Troy Bannister said that these fines are a good starting point for ensuring greater interoperability, but he isn’t too sure the OIG will be able to effectively enforce them.

By Katie Adams

MedCity Influencers

Solving EHR’s ‘Last Mile’ Problem

The healthcare industry needs a regulated system that can live in between the health information management and release of information departments. It is time for both sides of this network to fully address the need to create a digital pipeline that delivers the request of information and records between two parties.

By Newton Ross and Dawn Toups

With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?

Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.

MedCity Influencers

A Changing Economy: Why Managed Services Can Help You Do More, Faster

Whether it’s application services for your EMR, service desk support, staffing, or any other host of needs, a managed services partner can take your organization to the next level while providing one thing money can’t buy—peace of mind.

By Curtis Watkins

MedCity Influencers, Health IT

5 steps to develop a dashboard to better manage your operations

How do organizations optimize and scale business intelligence? Here are five basic steps to consider when developing dashboards to assess your operational, financial and quality components within the care at home industry.

By Christina Andrews

Health Tech

Stanford spinout raises $14M for its point-of-care physician consult service

Atropos Health, a startup spun out of Stanford University that provides point-of-care physician consults, recently raised $14 million in Series A funding. The company will use the money to further develop the oncology consult product it is building with ASCO, as well as grow its commercial team.

By Katie Adams

Health Tech

Canvas Medical rakes in $24M, earns ONC certification for API

EMR startup Canvas Medical recently raised $24 million in a Series B funding round and became the first EMR company founded in the past two decades to be federally certified by the ONC. The startup's customers are now eligible for value-based payment models in Medicare and Medicaid programs.

By Katie Adams

Health Tech

To improve EMR satisfaction, work on speed and reliability first

Providers would be wise to improve their EMR system response time and reliability, as these two measures critically influence clinician satisfaction. These improvements are acutely needed amid healthcare’s workforce shortage — burnout and EMR dissatisfaction are key factors associated with clinicians' likelihood to resign.

By Katie Adams

Hospitals

New EMR report shows Cerner continuing to lose market share in the U.S. despite what Feinberg said

The 2022 U.S. Hospital Market Share report from KLAS states that other than government contracts, "no net-new large health systems have selected Cerner since 2013" though the EMR vendor scored big among small hospitals with less than 200 beds. MEDITECH had major wins among small and large hospitals.

By Arundhati Parmar

Health IT, Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence

UPMC spins out AI-driven analytics company focused on chronic disease patients

Realyze Intelligence, incubated at and funded by UPMC Enterprises, provides a platform that uses EMR data to identify chronic disease patients and help clinicians link them to appropriate treatment options. The platform leverages not only the structured data available in EMRs but also unstructured clinical notes.

By Anuja Vaidya

Health IT

Global EMR purchasing remained robust during pandemic, with Epic in the lead

Epic led global, non-U.S. EMR purchasing in 2020, a year that saw strong activity in the arena despite the pandemic. But certain regions did experience a downswing, including Latin America, where Brazil saw a 50% drop in EMR purchasing.

By Anuja Vaidya

Health Services

Maximize Revenue and Patient Care with Strategic Weight Loss Management

We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.

By Build My Health and MedCity News

Addressing the missing link in value-based care: Timely, contextualized data in the workflow

In an interview, Holon Solutions CEO Jon Zimmerman shared some insights on his 40-year career and how his experience aided the development of Holon’s approach to precision information delivery.

By Stephanie Baum

MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence, Physicians

Getting healthcare enterprise AI data to deliver

When we talk about artificial intelligence, the truth is most physicians aren’t using it.What we need now is for developers and tech executives to stop designing theoretical solutions, and instead place physicians, patients, and specific clinical needs at the center of their solutions.

By Jeff Sorenson

MedCity Influencers, Health IT

3 strategies to manage digital health data

The value of digital health data is as vast as its volume – but only if it can be unlocked, managed, and ultimately shared for the greater good.

By Laura Marsden

Health IT, Hospitals, Policy

With pandemic, some groups disappointed in delayed interoperability rules

Though hospitals got an extension on certain deadlines for CMS’ new interoperability rules due to Covid-19, some groups say the rules are more important now than ever.

By Elise Reuter

Daily

Survey: Digital records not reaching patients

Hospitals have invested heavily in electronic medical records. But a survey of a small number of patients found that when patients ask to see those records, many still get paper copies.

By Joel Berg