Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR)

The data breach exposed the personal information of patients, family members and caregivers in Washington State. The number of affected individuals is still being investigated.

Bob Segert sees the company as viable for a public offering after three years of its life as a private entity. Meanwhile, athenahealth announced a new clinical advisory board this week to tackle provider burnout and other EHR documentation challenges.

While understanding and reconciling drugs after discharge from the hospital can be challenging, it's a necessity for greater efficacy of care delivery. HL7's Da Vinci project can help.

The cloud-based platform provides security, scale and the processing power needed for genomic data storage and analyses, eliminating the need for specialized infrastructure and workflows.  

One notable success at the behavioral healthcare organization has been a 35% increase in team members' use of evidence-based techniques since implementing the technology.

The EMR system will first go live at Hunter New England LHD.

The former employee's access to patient data and health information was outside the scope of their job functions and was without a reasonable basis, the health plan says.

Ensuring medication history data, prescription fill insights and other information is scaled to specific populations can lead to better patient outcomes, says Dr. Colin Banas, chief medical officer at health IT company DrFirst.

The new partnership, focused on social determinants of health, aims to create a statewide mechanism for sharing data referrals, interventions and outcomes among providers and social care agencies.

Mutaz Shegewi, research director, provider IT transformation strategies, at IDC Health Insights, discusses innovations leading the evolution of EHRs and where EHR technology will be in a decade.