Electronic Health Records (EHR) news and information

Surescripts, the for-profit electronic prescription network owned by pharmacy associations and pharmacy benefit management companies, is adding 19 state, regional and private health information exchanges to its portfolio of heath information exchange services.
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The United States has spent a lot of time and money to digitize healthcare records, but the effort has not gotten very far yet. Electronic health records in the United States are supposed to take full effect by 2015. Without that technical backbone, the promise of the Patient Protection and...
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The Kansas Health Information Network, which is in the process of connecting the electronic health record systems of thousands of providers across the state, hopes to launch a new statewide patient portal next month. The portal will be free for all Kansas patients.
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The Louisiana Health Information Technology Resource Center is reporting that 1,042 healthcare providers across the state are now live with electronic health records and capturing meaningful use data. As of this week, 74% of Louisiana's priority primary-care physicians met federal guidelines for...
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Federal health information technology policymakers plan to establish a voluntary program for the testing and certification of electronic health-record systems used by long-term care, post-acute care and behavioral health providers.
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There has been significant progress in getting health information technology systems to talk to one another, according to a new study on interoperability by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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DocuTrac, which develops electronic health records and practice-management software for the behavioral health industry, has hired Kevin O'Shaughnessy as director of technical support services.
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Six regional networks of community health centers are slated to receive a total of $3 million in federal funding toward the adoption of or improvement to their electronic health-record systems.
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Nashville healthcare providers looking for a way to meet federal requirements related to electronic health records have a new option. The Tennessee Health eShare Direct Project rolled out statewide this week, following pilot programs in Chattanooga, Memphis and Hickman County that launched in March.
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Hospitals and office-based physicians not yet using an electronic health-record system can get some free help from the federal government on what to expect when contracting to buy EHR software or services.
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