The large healthcare system revealed that the practice complexity coupled with flu season was causing delays in the successful transition from Epic to Cerner EHR. According to reliable reports, Phoenix-based 28-hospital health system Banner Health’s huge efforts to switch Epic EHRs […]
Hospital aims at eliminating adverse events and develop aggressive treatment plans via putting data insights right into clinician workflow. Ochsner Health System has recently launched a new AI and cloud tech from Microsoft and Epic Systems to offer better care to all its patients. […]
Google AI has reportedly made a huge breakthrough. It can now successfully predict cardiovascular problems such as strokes and heart attacks by simply looking into the images of the retina. The best part, there is no need to draw any blood or take any other necessary tests. […]
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. […]
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 [...]
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. […]
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 [...]
