Electronic Health Records

SMART on FHIR embeds the apps into the Cerner EMR, and the company’s reps say everybody wants to talk about the possibilities.

New report from CHIME and KLAS virtual care platforms are finding favor for scheduled and patient-focused visits, on-demand and consumer-focused meetings and telespecialty consults.

Azalea brings cloud-based IT, billing and reporting systems and services to the table, and Prognosis adds its electronic health records system.

Interoperability and workflow norms stand in the way, but convincing insurers the tech is worth the extra price tag can be the biggest obstacle.

Several companies are working with policymakers and other vendors to reduce overprescribing.

Improved interoperability requires integrating exchange frameworks, improving usability, earning the engagement of caregivers and patients, and more.

EHR vendor’s cloud-based portal will now make it easier for physicians to share clinical notes with their patients.

In some cases, more data is needed to draw conclusions, and in others, the tech just isn’t there yet, John Quackenbush, a computational biologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, says.

The funding for the new Lorenzo digital exemplar programme will come out of the Department of Health’s 2013 agreement with CSC, now DXC Technology follwing the 2016 merger with the Enterprise Services portfolio of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

The app provides a more sophisticated workflow for practices that are reviewing large amounts of patient data and filling medication and lab requests daily, company says.