Wisconsin-based Agnesian Healthcare has sued Cerner for fraud and breach of warranty. The healthcare organization has claimed issues in its billing software that caused it a loss of over $16 million. The hospital stated that the said issues have also damaged its reputation and has claimed $200,000 a month in damages. Agnesian Healthcare started using Cerner’s [...]
Patients records to be accessed through iOS devices by a network of half million physicians and clinicians. Doctor-patient communication is vital for effective and successful healthcare initiatives. A healthy communication between the receiving and giving ends of healthcare can really improve the overall health of the country. This is precisely why, commendable initiatives are being taken [...]
The age of smart homes is already upon us and while it has automated much of our daily lives, experts believe that all those gadgets and sensors can also help us with healthcare. Smart homes sensors can easily collect behavioral data and health measurements that can assist providers and healthcare specialists in improving our quality of [...]
Symptom checker functionality has been added into the Epic’s MyChart portal by Mayo Clinic and EHR vendor Epic Systems. Patients can use the symptom checker feature to measure common conditions such as migraine, swelling, anxiety, dizziness, cold or flu. Based on algorithms, Mayo’s symptom checker is based on the data entered by users. It covers more [...]
Epic Systems Corp has announced to release a digital tool ‘Share Everywhere’ which will allow patients to share their medical records with any health care provider provided they have an Epic EHR. The announcement is seen as a huge step toward the ever-elusive digital exchange of medical information. Share Everywhere will allow patients to grant access [...]
Clinicians have been using Electronic Health Records (EHR) for quite a while, but one question they can’t get over is whether a cloud-based system is better than an on-premise or not. Cloud-based systems may be comparatively new in the market but their benefits are immense. Not only they are economical, but they can also be accessed from [...]
