Electronic Health Records (EHR) news and information

Stoltenberg Consulting, a healthcare information technology consulting firm based in Pittsburgh, has named Douglas Herr its VP of Epic practice and client relations.
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An early report on Monday's tragedy in Oklahoma points to just how far this nation has come in a short time on health information exchange.
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Three healthcare organizations are defending the federal health IT booster programs against calls from GOP senators who want a “reboot.”
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MDI Achieve, which provides a cloud-based electronic health record called MatrixCare to long-term-care and senior living communities, has named Denise Wassenaar chief clinical officer.
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Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., is laying the groundwork for its next big advances in information technology.
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Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. The CMS called a long overdue “timeout” and solicited comments concerning how to rectify their disastrous electronic health-record mandates. The current immature, rushed, proprietary EHR technology fails to...
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The House Appropriations Committee this week marked $344 million for the development of an electronic health-record system that would allow the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to share the same information.
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Nurses at Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, Calif., have asked administrators to put implementation of a new computerized physician order entry system on hold until glitches can be worked out and more training provided to nurses and doctors who use it.
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Two North Carolina hospitals recently reported operating losses that they say are attributable in part to projected revenue that has been delayed related to problems rolling out their version of the Epic EHR system, particularly with billing, procedure coding and collections.
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The New York eHealth Collaborative has announced the three winners of its Patient Portal for New Yorkers Design Challenge, launched earlier this year in which designers submitted portal prototypes for the not-for-profit organization.
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