Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)
Tragedy struck a critical access hospital in Maine, when a medical overdose killed a man earlier this month. Hospital officials are reportedly calling the death a result of human error, and a spokesman for the hospital says it is difficult to say whether or not having an electronic health records system in place would have prevented this from happening.
Leadership and execution are key to the success of the Allscripts-Eclipsys merger, according to Allscripts customers, who say the merger presents both challenges and opportunities.
Catholic Health Initiatives, a Denver-based healthcare system, will hire more than 200 high-tech workers to help roll out its new clinical system across the country.
Healthcare providers and payers face complex challenges when trying to maximize the value of their clinical data, but their expectations for clinical analytics vary significantly, according to a new study.
Healthrageous, a new personalized health technology company, has landed $6 million in financing to bring to market technologies developed at the Boston-based Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners Healthcare.
Leaders of the Indiana Health Information Exchange (IHIE) - claiming to be the largest HIE organization in the country - announced Wednesday the exchange would expand to serve patients in Terre Haute and Clinton, Ind.
With "Usability Methods to Improve EMRs," Jeffery Belden, MD, from the University of Missouri, and Janey Barnes, from User-View Inc., presented a detailed and user-focused design process for organizations developing EMRs.
The message from the HIMSS Virtual Conference and Expo session "The Roadmap of EMR Adoption and IT Hospital Success" was clear: IT implementation isn't just a technology project, it's a clinical one.
Although nearly half of all Americans are ready to toss the paper and believe electronic health records will enable more efficient healthcare, they are largely in the dark about what it actually means for them as a patient, says a new survey.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will make $80 million available to test technology applications developed through a competition to find innovative solutions to VA's most pressing healthcare challenges, including homelessness, expanding online healthcare and strategies for treating kidney disease on an outpatient basis.