Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
After receiving concerns from stakeholders, EHR technology developers and ONC-ATCBs about public health surveillance specifications for certified EHRs, the ONC issued an interim final rule requesting to remove the specs.
As electronic health records become more prevalent, it becomes more difficult to choose an EHR that will remain relevant and usable well into the future. Jerry Buchanan of eMids Technologies, Inc., an IT consulting firm, shares the following five key components of the EHR of tomorrow.
The Dow Chemical Company has announced the deployment of a new EHR solution across its U.S.- and India-based facilities. Company officials said the new technology is part of a push to improve the quality of life for employees and the surrounding community.
In its first report on specialty ambulatory electronic medical record systems, research firm KLAS digs into vendor performance by practice specialty.
CCHIT chair Karen Bell says the EHR certification process required for meaningful use is moving steadily in the right direction. "It's a little bit like the Wild West because things are changing so rapidly," she said. "But we're clearly making progress."
Two landmark reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) changed Americans’ perception of their health care system and launched today’s drive to improve the quality and safety of medical care in America. The reports were To Err Is Human, published in 1999, and Crossing the Quality Chasm, released in 2001.
There can be no meaningful use of an EHR without product certification. To make the testing go without a hitch, practice, practice and practice some more, officials from the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) urged CIOs gathered at the CHIME10 Fall CIO Forum.
Taconic Health Information Network and Community (THINC) has been awarded an $8.7 million grant for a project that aims to boost mental health care coordination among six medical home practices through the use of health IT.
The nation's healthcare IT chief, David Blumenthal, MD, acknowledged that achieving meaningful use of health IT would be hard work, and then told his audience of more than 600 health system and hospital CIOs and IT managers there would be even harder work ahead.
Mature electronic health record systems and health information exchange capabilities contributed to the success of five of the 10 accountable care organization (ACO) demonstration sites funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, according to a CMS official.