HHS Looks Into Leveraging PDMPs To Track Prescription Histories
President Trump has proposed the FY19 budget for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and it stresses that the agency should make dealing with the opioid crisis its top priority. […]
Florida Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Epic Systems
The court said that the complaint lacked credible allegations denoting that false claims were actually submitted to Medicare. A federal Judge carrying out his duties in the Middle District of Florida has dismissed the lawsuit against EHR giant Epic systems that claimed that the company […]
Allscripts To Feature Microsoft Azure-Powered EHR At HIMSS 2018
The EHR software vendor also plans on bringing new client-facing tools along with the recently-acquired technologies from Practice Fusion and McKesson to the show floor. Remember Allscripts announcing its partnership with Microsoft to design a new cloud based EHR last year? Well, we will finally be seeing its results at HIMSS 2018. […]
Advocate Health Care Announces An Epic Switch
After its merger announcement with Aurora Health Care, Advocate Health Care announces that it will replace its current mix of Allscripts, Cerner and eClinicalWorks EHR with Epic EHR Software Chicago-based Advocate Health Care has announced that it would merge with Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care to create the 10th-biggest not-for-profit healthcare system in the U.S. It is an $11 billion [...]
Who Are The New Payers In Healthcare? Patients!
The Revenue Cycle leader at TransUnion Healthcare believes the patients to be the new payers in healthcare. Jonathan Wiik, revenue cycle leader at TransUnion Healthcare, has revealed that in the evolving healthcare payment landscape, the patients are the new payers and they now represent a staggering 30% of the billing revenue. […]
Elekta Collaborates With IBM Watson Health To Provide AI Capabilities To Oncology
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 that can easily be [...]
Veteran Affairs To Pause Cerner EHR Over Interoperability Issues
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 assessment. […]
Apple Poised To Launch Health Records App Featuring HL7’s FHIR Specifications
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 data in a specific [...]
Stjepan Tot Estate Sues eClinicalWorks Sued For Nearly $1 Billion
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 the patient was unable [...]
