Electronic Health Records (EHR) news and information

Consumer advocates and attorneys are lining up against a proposal to allow patients requesting their own medical records to be charged up to four times what they pay now.
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Eight out of 10 eligible hospitals and 58% of eligible physicians and other medical professionals have received payments totaling $15.5 billion under the federal electronic health record incentive payment program, according to the latest CMS data.
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The cost of connecting one health information technology system with another remains a significant barrier to achieving the national goal of a computerized and interconnected healthcare industry. Healthcare providers complain that they often pay high fees...
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Hospitals—even those with loads of experience using health information technology—are still having a tough time using electronic health-record systems to gather and report clinical quality measures, according to a new report summarizing a study by the American Hospital Association.
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Vitera Healthcare Solutions, Tampa, Fla., has expanded both its services and its customer base with the acquisition of Birmingham, Ala.-based SuccessEHS, completed on July 25.
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From a healthcare informatics perspective, it's as if Juliet married Romeo and the parents approved. Two not-for-profit standards-development organizations, producers of once-competing clinical codes, SNOMED-CT and LOINC, have reached a 10-year collaborative agreement to work together to improve...
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Providers are receiving a much larger volume of personal health data from patients, and experts are crafting recommendations on how best to manage the flood of information.
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New technology and collaborative efforts are helping Harrisburg Medical Center and the Prairie Heart Institute in treating heart patients in Southern Illinois.
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U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said Monday he is co-sponsoring a bill that would require the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments to find a better way to share health information so veterans can have better access to their military health records.
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Doctors at Milwaukee Health Services have not had access to the medical records of 40,000 patients since June 30, when an Atlanta company cut off the community health center's access to its electronic medical records after their contract ended.
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