Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Starboard, which got two members appointed to Cerner’s board last week, sees the EHR vendor’s business as “highly sticky.”

New research shows that the ways hospitals tap into EHR information varies from vendor to vendor.

Adam Greene, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, says the HITECH Act may have pushed forward the digitization of the healthcare system, but it also changed what can go wrong from a legal compliance perspective by an order of magnitude.

From spring 2020, the electronic health record will be available in Switzerland. In the eHealth Barometer 2019, the country has already asked its citizens their views on the new digital health services.

Defense Healthcare Management Systems' Stacy Cummings and the DHA's Major General Lee Payne and Pat Flanders discuss the giant change management problem and infrastructure needs for an enterprise EHR implementation.   

Bridge Connector says its “no-code” iPaaS platform can be used to integrate a variety of data sources.

A new survey from the American Telemedicine Association assesses the current state of data exchange standards for remote care and offers best practices for health systems looking to capitalize on its potential.

Ochsner's system uses data patients collect at home to treat COPD, diabetes and hypertension. "Patients are thirsty for the data," claims Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Dr. Richard Milani.

Since deploying speech recognition and integrating it with its athenahealth EHR, the group practice has seen the average note completion time drop from 4.8 minutes to 1.6 minutes per note.

Three experts discuss how application programming interfaces help enable system interoperability, and describe what the role of APIs will be in the future.