Category: EHR

Practice Fusion has announced the launch of its Medical Imaging API to digitally connect imaging centers to physicians. Upcoming changes in the Meaningful Use federal EHR incentive program will require physicians to order and receive imaging results electronically, putting pressure on the $100 billion a year imaging industry to offer their services through an EHR,…

Today’s EHR and HIT news includes updates from CureMD and Quest Diagnostics, who has announced a distribution partnership with AT&T.  There is also customer acquisition news from SRS. CureMD Oncology EHR Exceeds Expectations of ASCO 2013 Annual Meeting Attendees CureMD’s enhanced medical oncology solution was met with high praise at the recently concluded American Society…

Netsmart announced that it has been selected by the Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) to receive an Electronic Health Record  Vendor Interface Grant, in the amount of $75,000, that will help the Commonwealth reach the goal of connecting every healthcare provider in the Commonwealth to the Statewide Health Information Exchange, the Mass HIway. The  grant will…

At a Senate Committee on Finance Hearing Wednesday, industry officials testified that though electronic health record systems are doing well in improving healthcare quality, there's a long way to go for the technology to be optimal. read more Source: Legislators, health experts: EHRs not optimal yet

I read with dismay yet another instance of a security breach of a provider's electronic health record system at the hands of healthcare staff who intentionally accessed patient data for… read more Source: Healthcare privacy thieves deserve no mercy

Physician adoption of electronic health records continues to increase, with 50.3 percent of practices reporting their use in January 2013, up from 49.6 percent in July 2012, according to a newly released report from Irvine, Calif.-based healthcare marketing firm SK&A. read more Source: Physician adoption of EHRs continues to rise

Today’s EHR and HIT news includes customer acquisition updates from ClearDATA Networks, M*Modal as well as partnership news from VitalHealth Software and new release information from Hello Health. BRIT Systems Selects ClearDATA for HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Hosting of Medical Images and VNA ClearDATA Networks has announced that BRIT Systems, a leading technology provider of PACS, RIS,…

As part of my ongoing series of EHR videos, I had the chance to sit down with Marc Probst, CIO of Intermountain and a member of a number of important healthcare IT committees, Mike Raymer, Senior Vice President of Solutions Management at M*Modal and Dr. Jonathan Handler, CMIO of M*Modal to talk about CPOE and…

Boston-based Partners HealthCare has unveiled a new initiative that enables patients to generate and collect data on themselves at home and upload it into Partners' electronic health record system. read more Source: Partners to integrate EHRs with home-generated patient data

Electronic health records provide many benefits, but also bring about “unintended consequences” of errors that can affect patient safety in the emergency department, according to a new article in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. read more Source: Emergency department EHRs 'particularly error prone'