Category: EHR

A small Montana hospital recently filed suit against NextGen Healthcare Information Systems in federal court alleging the company failed to deliver an electronic health records system as promised. read more …read more

The electronic health record world covered a lot of ground in 2013, some of it positive, some of it not. Here’s our annual look at the top stories that dominated the headlines in FierceEMR in 2013–and a few that we might expect to see in 2014. read more …read more

White Sulphur Springs hospital says company never installed health records system Mountainview Medical Center (MT) is suing NextGen Healthcare Information Systems for failing to install a certified EHR by a contractually agreed upon install date of June 1, 2013. When the date passed, the NextGen and Mountainview agreed to a new delivery date of October…

Happy New Year Everyone! Since most people are off today, we took off work as well. However, I thought it would be fun to start the new year with a look back at the most viewed posts on EMR and HIPAA in 2013. This doesn’t necessarily mean the post was done in 2013, but it…

Acumen EHR 7.0, a nephrology-specific electronic health record system created by Acumen Physician Solutions, has received ONC 2014 HIT certification as a complete EHR from ICSA Labs. The ONC Certified HIT Technology program tests and certifies that Health IT technology is capable of meeting the 2014 Edition criteria approved by the Secretary of Health and…

ComChart Medical Software, LLC president, Hayward K. Zwerling, MD, earlier this month posted a letter on The Health Care Blog saying that the ComChart EMR would no longer be meaningful use certified. Here’s a portion of the letter that describes the reasoning: ComChart EMR will continued to be certified as a Complete EMR for Stage…

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City is expanding a successful sepsis-reduction program hospitalwide in January after a test program using alerts generated by electronic medical records cut sepsis rates by 40 percent, the Canadian Medical Association Journal reported. read more …read more

From Informatics Doc: “Re: PCORI. Announces who they will fund to build clinical data research networks and patient-powered research networks, which has a fairly ambitious national goal. MU-compliant EHRs will be a key component to several networks.” The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a non-profit created as part of PPACA/Obamacare, approves $93.5 million to fund 29…

Will Open EMR Die? http://t.co/IuIN84Mn6V – I agree with this post by @drchrono 100% — Nrip Nihalani (@nrip) December 29, 2013 It seems a little ironic that an EMR vendor would write about wanting an open source EMR to die. Although, I couldn’t help but read the irony that this person chose not to be…

iMAX announced that their EHR, the 2014 Meaningful Use version of its industry leading health record software, has been tested and certified as a Complete EHR that supports both Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use measures. The 2014 technology was certificated by the Drummond Group as part of the Office of the National Coordinator…