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Health System Implements Genomics Tool to Enhance Precision Medicine

April 22, 2022 - Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare (GVMH) in Clinton, Missouri, has partnered with Massachusetts-based electronic health record (EHR) company MEDITECH to utilize genomics in patient care. To bolster the integration of genetic data into the care experience, GVMH is deploying MEDITECH’s Expanse Genomics, an EHR-based solution that allows...

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Clinician Burnout

November 23, 2020 by Jessica Kent

While the dawn of the EHR promised streamlined, accelerated healthcare delivery, the technology can also include burdensome alerts and documentation requirements that lead to clinician...

Cerner Deploys Enhanced Clinical Decision Support Technology

July 23, 2020 by Jessica Kent

Cerner Corporation and Holon Solutions have announced a partnership to offer accelerated, seamless clinical decision support at the point of care. The organizations will deploy patented technology...

How Ambient Clinical Intelligence Reduces Provider Burnout

February 24, 2020 by Nuance

The explosion of value-based care has triggered a need for high-quality patient data to identify gaps in care and inform many shared savings payments. Patient data is also used by payers for...

EHR Use, Data Stewardship Shortfalls Top 2019 Patient Safety Concerns

March 12, 2019 by Jennifer Bresnick

Organizational challenges with EHR use and data stewardship strategies are at the top of this year’s ECRI Patient Safety Concerns list, indicating that healthcare providers are still finding it...

ONC Offers $80K for Tools to Improve EHR Reporting for Patient Safety

May 31, 2018 by Jessica Kent

ONC is offering $80,000 in prize money to developers who can create a simple, intuitive method for reporting patient safety concerns through the electronic health record. “Reporting on...

Allscripts Buys Practice Fusion to Bulk Up on Big Data, EHR, Life Sciences

January 08, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Allscripts has announced that it will acquire Practice Fusion, a health IT vendor offering a cloud-based EHR and data analytics tools for life science companies, for $100 million in cash. The...

Pew: EHR Usability Concerns May Still Impact Patient Safety

December 21, 2017 by Jessica Kent

Electronic health records are quickly becoming the standard way clinicians track and retrieve patient information, but EHR usability can put patient safety in jeopardy, according to a report from the...

AMA to Connect Physicians with Health IT, Big Data Companies

October 26, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

The American Medical Association (AMA) is continuing its efforts to reshape the health IT landscape by offering physicians a chance to collaborate with big data analytics companies and other vendors...

EHR Scribes Save Time, But Do They Produce Accurate Health Data?

September 20, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

Electronic health records (EHRs) have been endlessly criticized, fairly or otherwise, for distracting physicians from their patients, extending long work days, and creating burnout conditions for...

Can $10B Solve Healthcare’s Big Data Analytics, Productivity Woes?

September 11, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

“Give me a lever long enough and a firm place to stand, and I shall move the world,” declared Archimedes in defense of the notion that with the right tools in place, the targeted...

New Medical Scribe Exam Keeps an Eye on EHR Data Integrity

May 02, 2017 by Jennifer Bresnick

A new national certification program for medical scribes will help to guide the growth of a profession that has seen a massive surge in demand since the advent of the electronic health record. Medical...

Mismatched Symptoms Call EHR Data Integrity into Question

February 02, 2017 by Thomas Beaton

A new study published in JAMA this month indicates that EHR data may not be completely aligned with what patients report to their providers. Eye health researchers from Michigan Medical School...

EHR Use Correlated with Higher Rates of Blood, Imaging Tests

January 25, 2017 by Thomas Beaton

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC) found that physicians using electronic health records tended to order more CBCs, CT scans, and x-rays for their patients than...

PCMHs, ACOs More Likely to Use EHRs for Population Health

April 18, 2016 by Jennifer Bresnick

A new survey published this month in the American Journal of Managed Care found that providers who had adopted EHRs in 2012 were significantly more likely than non-users to engage in population health...

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