Category: EHR

Sessions at the annual College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) conference in Arizona last week ran the gamut from governance and leadership to patient identifiers to data analytics to federal initiatives such as Meaningful Use. But one common theme emerged time and again throughout the week: Money. read more Source: Special report: At CHIME13,…

IBM Research today unveiled two new Watson-related cognitive technologies that are expected to help physicians make more informed and accurate decisions faster and to cull new insights from electronic medical records. The projects known as “WatsonPaths” and “Watson EMR Assistant” are the result of a year-long research collaboration with faculty, physicians and students at Cleveland…

InteliChart has announced InteliChart Patient Portal version 2.5, has enhanced its ONC-certified EHR module by certifying for five additional modules of the 2014 Edition’s criteria in both the Inpatient and Ambulatory domains. The designation, which comes six months after the company’s initial 2014 certification, indicates that InteliChart’s technology is authorized to help eligible healthcare organizations…

Researchers have found that electronic health record data can identify drugs that may stall organ rejection in transplant patients. read more Source: EHRs help identify drugs that fight organ rejection

VitalHealth Software has announced that its partner VisionWeb successfully achieved Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification status for Uprise, its cloud-based EHR, which is powered by the VitalHealth EHR platform. Uprise has received Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification as a Complete EHR for the ambulatory setting by Drummond Group, an Office of the National Coordinator […]…

Today’s EHR and HIT News includes strategic partnership news between Azalea Health and Iconic Data, as well as news from Avantas on the awarding of their “Change Maker” award to Mercy Hospital. There is also customer acquisition news from Explorys. Leading Healthcare IT Firm Relies on SwiftPayMD For New Product Launch Fast growing Azalea Health…

The following is a guest blog post by Joel Kanick from interfaceMD. Five years ago, you wouldn’t have been able to convince me that technology would let us take a picture of a check with our cell phone and immediately deposit that check into our bank account. But that and more is today’s reality. From…

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ latest draft strategic plan places a heavy emphasis on electronic health record adoption and increased electronic data sharing among providers. read more Source: HHS draft strategic plan focuses on Meaningful Use, Health IT

The people at AdvancedMD put out a whitepaper called EHR Myths Debunked: 5 Status Quo Myths that Hold You back and Reduce Your Bottom Line. I love the topic of debunking EHR myths. There are a lot of them out there that are propped up by misinformation. Plus, the EHR world is moving so quickly,…

Electronic health records can help accelerate and advance the use of genomic medicine, as demonstrated in several articles published in a special issue of Genetics in Medicine, the official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. read more Source: EHRs can integrate genomic information to improve patient care