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Electronic health record (EHR) management

• EHR vendors aim to meet pandemic demands

  Healthcare CIOs are repurposing existing EHR products or rolling out new features to address COVID-19 demands.  Continue Reading

• How one medical center overcame legacy EHR systems

  Parkview Medical Center needed to free data held hostage in legacy systems. Here's how the institution succeeded and how other healthcare organizations can follow.  Continue Reading

• AI usage in healthcare upgrades imaging, analytics, automation

  Computer vision, deep learning and automation are making greater inroads into radiology, robot-assisted surgeries, virtual nursing assistants and fraud detection.  Continue Reading

• Meditech EHR moves to public cloud, points to industry trend

  When EHR vendor Meditech partnered with Google Cloud Platform, it joined Cerner in a push toward the public cloud. The trend presents new opportunities and new challenges for healthcare CIOs.  Continue Reading

• Proposed interoperability in healthcare rules called 'essential first step'

  Proposed rules are a good first step toward interoperability in healthcare, but don't go far enough, according to healthcare leaders.  Continue Reading

• Physician burnout eased with homegrown tech

  Kaiser Permanente fights fire with fire by developing digital tools to reduce technology-related physician burnout.  Continue Reading

• How CIOs can help alleviate EHR issues

  EHRs can be more problem than solution for healthcare organizations, but CIOs can help by talking to practitioners and holding vendors accountable.  Continue Reading

• Hospital taps Parachute Health to cut cord on fax machine

  New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery deployed software from Parachute Health Inc. to bring the fax machine directly to its EHR system.  Continue Reading

• Future of connected healthcare includes chatbots, Medicare changes

  Remote patient monitoring and chatbots will be mainstream in healthcare -- eventually. Partners HealthCare's Joseph Kvedar, M.D., offers his view on why it takes so long.  Continue Reading

• Learn about the leading EHR software products and their features

  Read in-depth about leading EHR tools on the market and how their capabilities, pricing and implementation offerings and mobile features can match up with organization needs.  Continue Reading

• Hospitals battle duplicate medical records with technology

  See how IT executives at two healthcare organizations weed out patient identification errors related to duplicate medical records -- a significant problem, according to research.  Continue Reading

• Considering a cloud-based EHR system? Here's what to know

  Implementing an EHR platform in the cloud can offer healthcare organizations lower costs and more accessibility, but they must be aware of connectivity and infrastructure drawbacks.  Continue Reading

• CoxHealth gains from outsourcing to Cerner ITWorks

  Cerner partners with more than 30 organizations to deliver outsourced IT operation management. One of those systems, CoxHealth, got faster, more stable IT management model.  Continue Reading

• The importance of EHR tools in today's healthcare industry

  A strong EHR system can effectively acquire and centralize vital patient information like lab orders, medications, medical history and referrals, if buyers know what they need.  Continue Reading

• Opioid crisis solutions include analytics, EHR integration

  Health IT stands ready to help battle opioid deaths through greater use of data analytics and improved integration of EHRs and prescription drug databases.  Continue Reading

• Why the healthcare BAA makes the cloud journey much tougher

  Applying public cloud to healthcare can create a brave new world for hospitals. The CTO of Providence Health & Services strongly advises reading the healthcare BAA very carefully.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare digital transformation maps the new patient journey

  The modern patient experience features flavors of consumerism combined with healthcare data. Giving patients greater access to that information is one area in which technology options thrive.  Continue Reading

• Use of AI in healthcare seen saving lives of patients

  Prevention of heart attacks and diagnoses of cancer may one day improve, thanks to AI. Infograph statistics reveal promising findings for AI applications in healthcare.  Continue Reading

• Healthcare AI struggles with funding and data quality

  Finding enough funds and validating data quality can be heavy challenges when it comes to adopting AI technology in healthcare organizations. Hospital IT professionals explain their approaches.  Continue Reading

• After implementation of electronic health records, design rises

  Data presentation and interface design will influence how physicians use EHRs in the future. New tools that integrate better with health records will feed off of analyzed data.  Continue Reading

• Apple Health app pilot combines engagement and interoperability

  The Apple Health app pilot combines flavors of EHR interoperability and patient engagement, according to some hospitals involved in the early stages of the effort.  Continue Reading

• Challenges of integrating an EHR with medical imaging storage

  The healthcare industry is still sorting out how to handle storing medical images in general. However, one issue is integrating that storage with the EHR.  Continue Reading

• Cerner exec talks about AI technology in healthcare and EHRs

  How will EHRs evolve once AI is involved? A Cerner exec discusses how this is already beginning to happen.  Continue Reading

• Augmedix remote medical scribe helps improve patient experience

  Remote medical scribe technology can help alleviate physicians of EHR burnout and improve the patient experience.  Continue Reading

• What to do when a new storage system requires an EHR migration

  Executing an EHR migration to a new storage platform can be a daunting task. Health IT experts from North York General Hospital share their experience and lessons learned.  Continue Reading

• Busting the early myths about blockchain in healthcare

  There's a lot of buzz about the uses for blockchain in healthcare. While the potential of this technology is exciting, one analyst provides a reality check.  Continue Reading

• CTO discusses health data storage, EHR technologies and medical images

  Health data storage plays an important role when it comes to EHRs and medical imaging. Pure Storage's CTO discusses integrating storage technologies with EHRs and medical image storage.  Continue Reading

• CIO: Healthcare data blocking is purely political

  The technology is in place for interoperability in healthcare. So why is data blocking still happening? It's purely political, one CIO says.  Continue Reading

• GeneInsight brings genomics in healthcare to point of care

  A suite of applications is working to bring genomics in healthcare to the point of care and reduce the administration of inappropriate therapies.  Continue Reading

• CIOs discuss EHR problems and single-solution EHR integration

  Many healthcare organizations have migrated to a single-solution EHR to improve workflow and patient care. However, it hasn't solved all EHR problems, CIOs say.  Continue Reading

• CIOs address EHR problems, focus on lack of interoperability

  It's no secret that EHR problems are aplenty in healthcare. But the lack of interoperability is top of mind for many in health IT. Two healthcare CIOs share their stories.  Continue Reading

• Clinical documentation improvement program boosts quality of care

  Redundant information and lack of training on proper record keeping are problems that a clinical documentation improvement program can solve. EHR complexity is often a leading culprit to tackle.  Continue Reading

• How to minimize revenue risk when implementing an EHR

  A revenue cycle executive passes on six best practices from a series of EHR rollouts that were designed to soften risks to the organization's billing processes.  Continue Reading

• Hone benefits of EHR investments for post-meaningful use era

  With the release of stage 3 rules, healthcare is heading into the post-meaningful use era. In response, hospitals are preparing to further optimize EHR investments.  Continue Reading

• iQueue software for data analytics helps infusion centers schedule

  LeanTaaS' data analytics software is helping infusion centers solve two common problems: Overbooking of chairs in the middle of the day and under-utilization of assets.  Continue Reading

• For many small practices, ICD-10 readiness is out of reach

  Many small physician practices aren't ready for ICD-10 yet, and, in some cases, it's because their vendors don't have ICD-10-ready services.  Continue Reading

• Sample high-value claims before ICD-10 implementation date

  With the heat on physician practices to prepare for the impending ICD-10 implementation date, two analysts discuss how best to avoid negative outcomes.  Continue Reading

• Meaningful use a mixed bag for development of EHR systems

  Most agree that meaningful use has driven the development of EHRs, but vendors complain that this focus has distracted them from improving ease of use.  Continue Reading

• In struggles, meaningful use attestation shapes EHR

  Paper-based medical record systems aren't gone yet, but they're waning as providers install EHR software and complete meaningful use attestation.  Continue Reading

• CIO John Halamka in intriguing EHR venture with athenahealth

  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's CIO John Halamka leads the hospital system into an unusual joint venture with EHR vendor athenahealth Inc.  Continue Reading

• Stage 2 woes may temper the effect of stage 3 meaningful use

  Although no curtain call is planned for meaningful use attestation, it sure looks like stage 3 reporting won't carry the oomph -- or rigidness -- of stage 2.  Continue Reading

• Mobile EHR drchrono needs no desktop, server PCs

  Physicians looking to ditch their keyboards, laptops and servers have a meaningful use stage 2 certified mobile EHR that can be used on iPads in drchrono.  Continue Reading

• Clinical decision support tools still underused by clinicians

  A major challenge facing today's physicians is learning how to complement their wisdom and experience with clinical decision support technology.  Continue Reading

• Copy and paste functions in EHRs have worth beyond medical upcoding

  Use of the copy and paste functions in EHRs remains controversial, but it may not simply be a tool for medical upcoding.  Continue Reading