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 [...]
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 [...]
The contract includes services for clinics, hospitals, mental health facilities, continuing care facilities, and community health sites. Alberta Health Services (AHS) is finally ready to lay the basis for a system-wide Electronic Health Record from the Wisconsin-based EHR vendor Epic Systems. The announcement came nearly after a year of consultation with numerous physicians, medical staff, and [...]
In a move to conform to state law, Epic receives $480 million instead of $940 According to reliable reports, the EHR giant Epic Systems will now be receiving less money than it expected in a trade secret lawsuit against an Indian company, Tata Consultancy Services. Back in April 2016, a Wisconsin court jury awarded EHR vendor [...]
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 [...]
More than half of healthcare executives are already witnessing success with encouraging outcomes and improving patient satisfaction. Also the uncertain future of the ACA is seen to be making telemedicine even more important. According to a survey, hospital executives are gradually prioritizing telemedicine for the purpose of delivering medical services as the Healthcare industry shifts to [...]
BOSTON — Chief information security officer of Health and Human Services Christopher Wlaschin said to strengthen their security posture there are three steps that hospitals should be taking today: join forces, treat your patching report like your profit-and-loss report and, at the very least, consider multifactor authentication. If you have the capability, then jump into the [...]
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 [...]
