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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Most people are well aware of the difference between an Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Electronic Medical Records (EMR), but now there is a new extension for EHR in the market and it is being called a CHR. Community Health Records (CHR) is a bit like an EHR and personal health records software. It has a [...]
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 [...]
Massachusetts-based medical organization UMass Memorial Health Care is gearing up for a system-wide Epic go-live on October 1. This is a part of a 10-year project which is expected to cost over $700 million. Commenting on this, UMass Memorial President and CEO Eric Dickson said, “Anytime you spend $700 million on something at a not-for-profit, it [...]
The new technology aims at enhancing interactions between providers and patients to reduce physician burnout and both boost consumer experience. Massachusetts-based multinational computer software technology corporation Nuance Communications has unveiled an artificial virtual assistant that has been designed specifically for healthcare providers and their patients. Before this, the IT Company has developed artificial intelligence virtual assistants [...]
