Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Jerry Buchanan, program manager at technology consulting firm eMids Technologies, shares five ways that consumer-driven healthcare proves to be game changing for healthcare IT.

Picis has been awarded a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) contract to implement an anesthesia record keeping (ARK) system in the Stars & Stripes Healthcare Network, a Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) serving Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia.

To best meet the goals of optimized, coordinated patient care and also help curb costs, physicians should be at the center of accountable care organizations (ACOs), the American Medical Association told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in a Dec. 2 letter.

CoActiv has announced a new EXAM-PACS donation program for qualifying educational institutions with accredited radiologic technologist training programs.

A new white paper from HIMSS Analytics, sponsored by Lantronix, surveyed 825 healthcare organizations to explore the progress of interfacing medical devices with the EMR.

Future docs take mobile technology as a given.

In August, rush begins to certify EHRs.

With the release of the iPad in April, many healthcare experts predicted that it could be a “game changer” for the industry by spurring physician’s adoption of electronic medical records.

In June, one of the biggest mergers of EHR vendors in quite some time was the talk of the healthcare IT world.

Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based healthcare system, announced in June it would hire more than 200 high-tech workers to help roll out its new clinical system across the country.