Electronic Health Records (EHR) news and information

Converting to electronic health records has been a potentially helpful process, but also one that has frustrated South Dakota doctors who find the changeover cumbersome and inefficient, officials said.
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R. Scott Lentz is the new CFO at CareCloud, a Miami-based company that provides cloud-based practice management, electronic health records and medical billings software and services for medical groups.
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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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While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system. To this end, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative...
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Information technology officers and their CEOs will be forced to make some tough choices in the months ahead. On a battlefield, it is called triage.
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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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The Defense Department's on-again, off-again flirtation with the Veterans Affairs Department's VistA electronic health-record system appears to be on again. But this time, a lot of other suitors will compete for the military's affection and what likely will be billions of taxpayers' dollars.
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Three winners will split more than $3 million in prize money offered by the Veterans Affairs Department to upgrade the scheduling software module of its VistA electronic health-record system.
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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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There has been a lot of complaining lately about the lack of interoperability in healthcare information technology and how the inability of computers to communicate with each other impedes organizing population health-improvement systems. But two Southern California organizations that just...
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