Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Attorney General Ken Pax­ton says the EHR vendor uses deceptive and anticompetitive practices to restrict parental access to children's medical records and undermine health technology competition in the state.

The healthcare industry is experiencing a fundamental shift in digital health infrastructure, one that prioritizes interoperability, clinician efficiency and patient-centered care – and where AI and advanced analytics play key roles.

The Australian Digital Health Agency is enabling allied health's access to health data and wider uptake of AI tools and other emerging technologies.

Intentional governance, process redesign, change management and data strategy all must be addressed to achieve optimal electronic records, says Barry Mathis, managing principal of IT advisory consulting at PYA.

The GAO says the Oracle electronic health record system still has numerous unresolved issues, but the VA insists accounts of persistent potential safety risks are "cherry-picked" and meant to besmirch the Trump administration.

The Therapy Network has reduced claim denials by one-third and more than doubled its therapist visit volume. Its therapists now spend less time writing notes and more time seeing patients, and the billing team catches issues before claims go out.

It is now extending the emergency department testing of Heidi AI scribe to 12 months after an initial month-long pilot.

Initial data from the past two years indicate that clinicians have saved about 50% in administrative time.

The project implementor says costs have increased since the initial business case was introduced during the pandemic in 2021.

Health systems potentially can use artificial intelligence to fix specialty margins and enrich the mix of patients in high-value service lines as well as alter the referral process via AI-driven patient ID and proactive outreach. One tech CEO explains how.