Swedish oncology Health IT vendor Elekta has announced that it will be collaborating with IBM Watson Health, industry leader in artificial intelligence, to provide Watson for Oncology as a branch of Elekta’s cancer treatment systems. Elekta said that it will be marketing Watson for Oncology under the heading of an AI-based clinical decision support system [...]
The agency contracted MITRE to perform an assessment and is pooling comments and recommendations for a final report due at the end of this month, the VA Secretary told the Senate VA committee. The EHR contract conducted between U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Health It giant Cerner is reportedly on hold due to an independent [...]
After numerous months of rumors, tech giant Apple has finally announced that it will be launching a personal health record (PHR) feature with its iOS 11.3. The beta of this feature has already been launched to users in Apple's iOS Developer Program. The particular feature is called Health Records and it will aggregate the existing patient-generated [...]
Prominent EHR vendor eClinicalWorks is now facing a class-action lawsuit that revolves around the inaccuracy of their medical record software. The lawsuit alleges that patients cannot trust eClinicalWorks medical record’s accuracy due to several flaws. The mentioned class action lawsuit was filed by the estate of a cancer patient (Stjepan Tot estate). The estate claimed that [...]
Epic Systems has been reportedly hit with a serious False Claims Act suit which claims the Healthcare IT giant’s billing system double bills the government when it comes to anesthesia services. The motioned lawsuit was made public last week and it claimed that there was a glitch in the system that was actually causing hundreds of [...]
Due to the virus, Merck received a reduced third-quarter revenue due to the virus causing temporary production shutdown and lost sales in certain markets. A prominent News source has reported that the Global pharma giant Merck was still suffering the effects of the global Petya/NotPetya cyberattack that it fell victim to in June 2017. Unfortunately, Merck [...]
EHRs have evolved over the years. A decade ago, almost nine out of ten healthcare providers in the U.S. were managing patient’s health records by hand. The feat was difficult and they had to keep color-coded files to make sure that everything made sense. Thankfully, the HITECH Act of 2009 was there to help US clinicians [...]
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the federal government that challenged the no-bid deal signed between Cerner and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the replacement of VA’s EHR platform. CliniComp, a California-based EHR developer, is the entity behind the filing of the mentioned law suit. The company said [...]
Most people are well aware of the difference between an EHR and EMR, but now there is a new extension for EHR in the market and it is being called a CHR. Community Health Record (CHR) is a bit like an EHR and a personal health record. It has a few components of an EMR as [...]
The US Health IT market for EHR/EMR systems is generally dominated by a group of large EHR companies such as Cerner and Epic Systems. These companies are producing excellent EHR solutions for all sorts of medical practices and large hospitals, but there are other vendors in the market who are offering quality EHR/EMR systems at far [...]
