Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

It averages 4,500 telehealth encounters per month and has not had a single security lapse or data breach in the eight years it has been using the EHR-integrated telehealth solution.

A strategic review of the initiative has so far found problems with patient safety, productivity, cost, schedule and performance. "Frankly, I for one am fed up," said one senator.

This week's top stories include the VA flagging unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates along with training deficiencies for its EHR modernization program, and a recently approved Alzheimer's drug that could strain Medicaid budgets.

The cloud is ready for healthcare, so expect healthcare organizations to be moving their data centers from on-premises to the cloud, says James Millington, director of Healthcare Industry Marketing at VMware.

Learn how they can also enhance provider and patient experiences.

Dr. Shawn Murphy, chief research information officer at Mass General Brigham, is leading the team facilitating the collection and analysis of standardized data from patients suffering from lingering COVID-19 symptoms.

Differing EHR vendors for inpatient and ambulatory abound, as they do for inpatient EHR and billing systems. What to do? An interoperability expert offers helpful advice.

She joined the company in 1988 as an implementation programmer before rising through the management ranks.

Researchers relied on records stored in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative's Data Enclave, which now includes information from 6.3 million patients.

Dr. Caren Campbell had bad experiences with electronic health records in the past. When she opened her own practice, she found an EHR that met all her needs.