Category: EHR

Despite lauding technology's potential to transform healthcare for the better, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said he thinks Meaningful Use needs to be reassessed. read more Source: Hatch wants to pause, reassess Meaningful Use

Guest post by Stuart Long, Chief Marketing & Sales Officer, Capsule Tech, Inc. Imagine information from your patient monitors, infusion pumps and ventilators speeding over the hospital network directly into the EMR. Consider the efficiencies and cost savings as device data auto-populates each field. Picture the satisfaction of caregivers as they abandon pens, clipboards and…

Four Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to encourage qualified safety net clinics to adopt electronic health records by extending the Meaningful Use incentive program to those providers. read more Source: Legislation expands Meaningful Use incentives to safety net clinics

The following is a guest post by Jon Fox MD, Founder of HealthApp Connect. This changes everything. Last week I had the opportunity to demo Google Glass. I test drove the Glass of one of the four thousand “Explorers” who were lucky enough to “win” a pair of specs from Big G. And as a…

To successfully implement technology–such as electronic health record systems–into healthcare processes, providers need to spend ample time ensuring employees are trained to use such tools, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari. read more Source: Mostashari: Emphasize training when adopting health IT

The crowded field of electronic health record vendors will be slashed to less than half by 2017, or by the implementation of Meaningful Use Stage 3–whichever comes first–according to a new Black Book Market Research report. read more Source: Field of EHR vendors could shrink significantly by 2017

The crowded field of electronic health record vendors will be slashed to less than half by 2017, or by the implementation of Meaningful Use Stage 3–whichever comes first–according to a new Black Book Market Research report. read more Source: 3 reasons most EHR vendors will be out of business by 2017

The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT has issued its first surveillance guidance to assist its ONC-Authorized Certification Bodies (ONC-ACBs), which certify which electronic health record products qualify for participation in the Meaningful Use Incentive program. read more Source: ONC issues surveillance guidance for certifcation contractors

Sutter Corporation's launch of a new electronic health record system at its East Bay hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area is causing numerous problems and putting patients at risk, according to the California Nurses Association. read more Source: Nurses: New EHR system putting patients at risk

Electronic health records can stem the short-tem growth in healthcare costs, according to a new study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine. read more Source: EHRs slow increase in outpatient costs