Category: EHR

Social and behavioral health information should be included in electronic health records to give care providers the most complete patient data about the patient, the Institute of Medicine says in a… read more …read more    

Primary-care physicians are happier with their EHRs than they used to be, according to Black Book Rankings’ annual report on ambulatory EHR users. read more …read more    

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General has taken the rather unusual step of terminating an advisory opinion originally in favor of a data exchange arrangement created by an electronic health record vendor. read more …read more    

Prodded by the nonprofit group, We Can Do Better, nine prominent health organizations in Oregon and Southwest Washington will open electronic doctor notes to their patients via the OpenNotes initiative, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. read more …read more    

During HIMSS, Citius Tech put out this great image they called the Healthcare CIO Mindmap. It’s a beautiful display of everything that’s happening in healthcare IT. Although, it’s also an illustration of the challenge we and hospital CIOs face. Is it any wonder that so many hospital CIOs feel overwhelmed? Enjoy the Healthcare CIO Mindmap…

O’Reilly Media specializes in books, courses and online services in technical innovation. This week, it released a new, comprehensive study on IT in Healthcare: The Information Technology Fix for Health (PDF). It’s written by O’Reilly editor Andrew Oram, who frequently writes on healthcare IT’s trends and issues. Oram takes on four basic, health IT areas…

Hospital interns spend >300% more time with EMR than direct patient contact study shows. Yikes! http://t.co/taSZt2n4qj — Dike Drummond MD (@dikedrummond) April 3, 2014 Everyone that reads this immediately thinks that this is a terrible thing. It seems ghastly that a doctor that’s paid to treat patients would spend so much time with an EMR…

Allscripts was informed that one of its key clients, Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP), has met the 2014 Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirement for electronic transitions of care. CVHP informed Allscripts that it had transmitted the requisite minimum 10 percent of discharge documentation between disparate electronic health record acute and ambulatory systems. “We see it…

Lawmakers continue to berate the Department of Defense for its failure to produce an interoperable electronic health records system with the Department of Veterans Affairs–despite spending more than… read more …read more    

I’ll admit that I’m a bit of a nerd (maybe even more than a bit) and I really enjoy reading venture capitalist blogs. One of my favorite reads is Fred Wilson. He posts something every day and he provides some amazing perspective on a lot of things. In a blog post a couple months back…