Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Urology Austin, a healthcare provider with locations throughout central Texas, began notifying its patients March 24 that hackers may have accessed patient records that included names, dates of birth, addresses, medical information and Social Security numbers.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are fast accelerating the insights that can be gleaned from the granular descriptions enabled by ICD-10.

The Tennessee-based health system said it is replacing Meditech and NextGen with Cerner’s hosted Millennium electronic health record, revenue cycle management and transaction services.

CIO Dan Waltz said that moving to a new electronic health record platform gives the health system an opportunity to transform patient care.

American Medical Association and many other groups also suggested that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Seema Verma loosen PQRS and value-based payment requirements.

Release 3 of the interoperability standard touts more utility for decision support and quality measures, and better functionality for clinical workflows.

Shulkin said it had been a "strategic mistake" to not rethink VistA concurrently with the Department of Defense's EHR modernization, but promised a clear vision for the VA's health IT strategy by the summer.

The tools analyze relevant patient notes using deep learning and natural language processing technologies.

With a new acute-care deployment, in addition to cloud-based migration of its ChartLogic outpatient EHR, practice management and patient portal technology, "the future of healthcare IT is in cloud-based applications," says Medsphere's CEO.

Russell Leftwich, MD, says IT professionals need to have a strategy for integrating the spec with existing standards into a hybrid.