Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Early results from an annual survey of provider practices show that more than half of the physicians who responded use at least partial EHRs in their offices, slightly higher than the 2009 figure of 48.3 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
WellDoc, which develops technology solutions to improve chronic disease management and reduce healthcare costs, announced Monday the first integration of a clinically-tested mHealth coaching platform with an electronic health records system.
About 90 percent of healthcare providers that purchased electronic medical records technology are off track to meet their meaningful use implementation goals, according to the 2011 Black Book Ranking's user survey.
The Alaska eHealth Network, Alaska's statewide health information exchange, has tapped Santa Monica, Calif.-based Orion Health as its primary technology provider, with the purchase Orion's HIE solution. AeHN will deploy the technology as a hosted, software-as-a-service model.
Physician practices may face total EHR adoption costs of $120,000 per physician, according to a new survey, which finds that the speed with which a practice fully implements its EHR and shifts to the new, accelerated workflow is critical to reducing the overall cost of adoption.
A recent report by Frost & Sullivan has shown that the United Kingdom is at the forefront of introducing eHealth initiatives in Europe. The report, titled E-Healthcare Initiatives in the United Kingdom, focuses on the UK’s successful implementation of several eHealth projects and the challenges of launching such projects nationwide.
The Marshfield Clinic is among 10 large physician groups participating in a Medicare demonstration project that have shown they can provide top quality of patient care while saving Medicare millions of dollars. Central to its performance, say Marshfield executives, is its electronic health record system.
Wolters Kluwer Health's Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), an academic publisher for medical students, has acquired Knoxville, Tenn.-based iCare Academic, the maker of iCare EMR, an educational program that simulates electronic medical records to prepare future nurses for 21st century healthcare.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is establishing several "communities of practice" to help its Beacon program establish clinical decision support technologies, care transitions programs, and pharmacy solutions and tools in healthcare improvement projects.
Two new publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are aimed at helping developers of software and computer systems for doctors' offices, clinics and hospitals make electronic health record systems easier to use.