Category: EHR

Providers in Kansas have a relatively high electronic health record adoption rate, but many of them needed to warm up to the concept, Michael Aldridge, Vice President of Operations and Program Director for the Kansas Regional Extension Center, told FierceEMR in an exclusive interview. read more …read more Source: Kansas REC: We've seen 'tremendous change'…

Help on the Way for Clinician Work Fatigue with Drug Interactions? By Helen Figge, RPh, PharmD Clinicians are increasingly using an electronic health record (EHR) to enter prescriptions via a computer. Increased utilization of computerized medication order entry is being driven in part by the Meaningful Use program, which includes incentives for the adoption and…

To improve the care provided to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients, questions about sexual orientation and gender identity soon will be “standardized demographic elements” in the University of California, Davis Health System's electronic health records. read more …read more Source: Health system to include sexual orientation, gender info in EHRs

Electronic health records, which have long been maligned as disruptive to the patient/physician relationship, can be used to enhance communication and interaction, according to an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. read more …read more Source: EHRs can improve patient-physician interaction

Today’s EHR and HIT news includes a customer acquisition updates from Merge Healthcare as well as news from Hyland Software on how their OnBase product has helped one customer recover more than $300 million by reducing net accounts receivable days.   St. Mary’s Healthcare System Selects iConnect Access and iConnect Enterprise Archive Merge Healthcare  has…

Implementing technology should be a cost of doing business for healthcare providers, as it is in other professions, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari. In a frank interview with AAFP News Now, Mostashari also stated that he expected physician dissatisfaction with electronic health records to rise as implementation goes beyond the early…

Vitera Healthcare Solutions Announces Acquisition of SuccessEHS Vitera announces the acquisition of Birmingham, AL-based SuccessEHS. Both vendors operate in the ambulatory EHR space, and the acquisition will result in an expansion of Vitera’s user base to 10,500 organizations, 415,000 medical professionals, and 85,000 physicians. Financial details were not disclosed. Mostashari asserts no more ICD-10 delays…

A survey of nearly 1,400 physicians indicates that tablets are of greater use for clinical purposes than smartphones, according to two reports by AmericanEHR Partners, a free online resource founded… read more …read more Source: Survey: docs see tablets as more useful than smartphones

There’s been a lot of talk in the EHR world about APIs and most of the time they talk about it as an open API. The problem is that there’s been a lot of talk about EHR APIs and not a lot of action. Having an open API is more than just giving a couple…

The four Texas regional extension centers have “met their scope of services” in the performance of their contracts with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, according to an audit report released June 17 by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General. read more …read more Source: Texas…