Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Healthcare providers are using this strategy to enable better access and improved data management and administration. 

This week's top stories include a nursing shortage eroding hospitals' financial performance, senior living communities using Alexa at scale, and the VA being grilled over patient safety concerns associated with its EHR modernization effort.

Also, the ADHA is seeking to add Aged Care Transfer Summary to My Health Record. 

The direct primary care provider group also saved an average of $415 per employee annually for each of its employer clients.

The NHS has received an extra £5.9bn in today’s budget, with UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling the funding “game changing”.

InterSystems' Ali Abi Raad discusses the main benefits of a cloud-hosted EMR solution versus a regular EMR, and how the company is assisting with travel technology during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Members of a House appropriations subcommittee also sounded the alarm about the cost of the program and cybersecurity issues at the agency.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to award a fund of £2.3bn in this year’s Budget, which will go towards improving IT and technology in NHS hospitals in England.

The agency has not had a Senate-confirmed Veterans Health Administration undersecretary for several years.