Electronic Medical Records (EMR) news and information

The supercomputer technology that defeated the world's best "Jeopardy!" players is now even smarter, thanks to a collaboration between IBM Research and the Cleveland Clinic.
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Last week, William Newton Hospital, Winfield, Kan., experienced an information technology system outage, when the hospital's main server at the hub of all digital operations ceased to function, said a hospital administrator. Staff immediately reverted to practices used before the introduction of...
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Many doctors have gotten used to bringing their iPads into the examining room, thanks to the Drchrono electronic health-records app. Now, patients will have the same good excuse for bringing their own iPads to appointments. Taking advantage of the AirDrop feature Apple introduced in iOS 7, Drchrono...
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Someone gained unauthorized access to records of up to 1,800 people who were patients at UnityPoint Health hospitals, the company said today. West Des Moines-based UnityPoint, which used to be called Iowa Health System, operates hospitals and clinics throughout Iowa and in parts of Illinois.
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In response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Drug Enforcement Administration argues that the "third-party doctrine" revokes privacy protections from citizens' prescription medical records.
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The Houston City Council recently approved a $1.6 million contract with Oregon Community Health Information Network, a medical records company based in Portland.
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An estimated 1 in 575 adults is a pediatric cancer survivor. While they came out the victor in their fight against the disease, most have battle scars. A majority of survivors will develop health conditions as adults that are directly related to their childhood cancer. Now a Web-based tool is...
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The Duke University Health System's recent shift to using electronic records promises a future of streamlined healthcare, but the new system's implementation has created several hurdles for patients and providers alike.
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Controlling their own health records is important to patients, and 41% say they would be willing to seek a new provider to access them, according to an Accenture report.
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The federally initiated Blue Button movement for patient data sharing was front and center at the Consumer Health IT Summit that kicked off National Health IT Week in Washington on Monday.
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