Epic's EHR has changed the face of healthcare, becoming the one source of truth and reporting for many organizations. It provides a wide range of comprehensive functionalities across patient experience, clinical documentation, reporting, and the revenue cycle. It has truly transformed the patient experience with portals for convenient appointment scheduling, viewing of medical records, and the ability for patients to easily communicate with their providers. It’s highly customizable and
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US Hospital EMR Market Share Growth Driven by Small Hospitals
What You Should Know:
EMR purchasing continued at a strong pace in 2022 and included a significant uptick in migrations and small-organization decisions. Improvements to clinician satisfaction, interoperability, and revenue cycle stability were the primary drivers.A new report by KLAS examines these and other trends in EMR purchases that occurred in the US from January–December 2022.
Analyzing US Hospital EMR Market Share 2023
Key insights are explained as follows:
Oracle
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KLAS: 5 Best Practices For Effective EHR Education
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A new report by KLAS delves into many of the questions posed to clinicians in the Arch Collaborative’s User Experience and Trainer Quality Benchmark surveys to help further demystify the specific characteristics of EHR education that led to clinician success with the EHR. The report also provides guidance on how organizations can generate clinician enthusiasm around EHR training to better help them thrive in their EHR environment. Unless specifically stated, all findings
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Suki Launches API Integration with Epic to Tackle Clinician Burnout
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Suki, the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for healthcare, today announced the integration of its AI-powered voice assistant with Epic EHR software using Epic’s ambient APIs.Suki Assistant helps clinicians complete time-consuming administrative tasks by voice and recently announced the ability to generate clinical notes from ambiently listening to a patient-clinician conversation; the integration enables notes to automatically be sent back to Epic,
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Luma Health Integrates with MEDITECH Expanse EHR
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Luma Health unveiled its integration and partnership with one of the healthcare industry’s top electronic health record providers, MEDITECH, which brings powerful new capabilities to the thousands of healthcare providers that use the MEDITECH Expanse EHR. As an initial member of the MEDITECH Alliance program and currently the only patient-facing vendor included in the program, Luma collaborated with MEDITECH to validate the integration of its Patient Success Platform™
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KLAS: Global (Non-US) EMR Benefits 2023
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As electronic medical record (EMR) adoption grows worldwide, healthcare organizations considering this digital transformation all have the same question: what benefits can we really expect to receive from implementing an EMR?KLAS interviewed leaders at 36 non-US healthcare organizations—12 of which are HIMSS Level 6 or 7—to learn about their journey to realizing benefits from an EMR implementation. Their latest report summarizes their insights, including what
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Duped by Data? Here’s Why EMRs Are Antiquated & Outdated in Today’s Hospital
Electronic medical records (EMRs) - software systems where physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers store, retrieve, and act on clinical data - are fundamentally broken. This sentiment is so widely shared among healthcare workers that it has become almost trite to point it out. Patients feel it too - we’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve heard “isn’t it in my chart?” when we ask a question during a clinical visit.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of EMRs do not facilitate
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KLAS: Ambulatory and Enterprise EMR Interoperability 2023
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Interoperability is a continued area of critical focus for the healthcare industry, according to a new report by KLAS.For its latest report, KLAS talked to vendor-identified deep adopters to take a holistic look at the current state of interoperability in ambulatory and enterprise EMRs and measure how close we are to an ideal state. The results reveal each vendor’s strengths and weaknesses within various areas of interoperability.
Exploring Ambulatory and
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4medica’s EMPI Platform Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
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4medica®, a healthcare data quality and matching technology company, today announced that the 4medica Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace.Built on Google Cloud’s Healthcare API, 4medica’s EMPI offers healthcare organizations access to a highly scalable data management services such as referential matching and identity enrichment.
Impact of Poor Healthcare Data Quality
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Catholic Care Center to Deploy Medsphere’s Wellsoft EHR and RCM Cloud Solutions
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- Medsphere Systems Corporation announced that Catholic Care Center of Bel Aire, Kansas, a Wichita suburb, will open a new senior behavioral health hospital with the company’s Wellsoft electronic health record (EHR) and RCM Cloud revenue cycle management solutions.
- Medsphere’s Wellsoft EHR solution supports comprehensive care across behavioral health, urgent, and emergency care environments. The company’s RCM Cloud solution is
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