Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

Improving patient care and clinical trials, driving value-based care and building trust require a confluence of data logic and innovation, health IT leaders said Wednesday at HIMSS24.

AI could identify early signs of heart disease and even Alzheimer’s in ocular images. But Kerry Goetz, associate director, NEI Office of Data Science and Health Informatics, says a lack of interoperability keeps this image data out of EHRs.  

COO Helen Waters discusses early adopters of the company's ambient listening, search and conversational AI technologies, along with news on its latest work in precision medicine.

A deep dive on qualified health information networks from Dr. John Blair, CEO of MedAllies, a designated QHIN, who also discusses how he is working with two major EHR vendors and numerous smaller ambulatory practices on interoperability.  

The Biden Cancer Moonshot says that Epic, Oracle Health, Meditech, athenahealth, Flatiron, Ontada, ThymeCare and CVS Health have adopted the CMS Enhancing Oncology Model to increase interoperability, advance equity and improve cancer diagnosis outcomes.

More deployments of cloud and AI technologies to enhance patient and clinician experience.

The Eye Care Center of Northern Colorado's new EHR/PM was painful – so it switched again. The result? A dozen clicks down to one. Two-and-a-half minutes down to just 30 seconds. More data sharing between physicians and specialists. And a biggie: correct bills.

Nuance DAX Copilot uses conversational, ambient and generative AI to auto-draft clinical exam room and telehealth conversations in seconds for immediate review and entry in Epic.

Interfacing with admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) on its infusion pumps has helped a regional health system increase visibility into patients’ infusion status and drug replenishment timing to reduce the chance of medication errors.