Does your organization follow evidence-based care guidelines? Do you currently utilize evidence-based content in your EHR? Do your clinicians embrace practices based on the best and most current clinical evidence?If your hospital has not yet fully adopted evidence-based medicine, yet wants to move in that direction, an important first step is to assess your organization’s readiness, starting with an examination of the hospital’s culture. As I travel across the country in my job, I often
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Heal Brings Apple Unified Health Records to Doctor House Calls
Heal, the market-leader in house calls, today supports Health Records on iPhone, which brings together hospitals, clinics, and the existing Apple Health app to make it easy for patients to see their available medical data from multiple providers whenever they choose. Heal is in-network with all major PPO insurance plans in California, Washington D.C., and Northern Virginia, and is expanding to other locations across the country. Previously, patients’ medical records were held in multiple
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DrChrono, Genomind Partner on EHR-Integrated Personalized Genetic Tests
EHR provider DrChrono Inc. and Genomind, which offers a unique personalized medicine platform that brings innovation to healthcare around the world, today announce a partnership to meet the growing need from both patients and doctors for personalized genetic tests that integrate with electronic health records.AS part of the partnership, physician practices using DrChrono’s platform can order test kits for Genomind’s Genecept Assay®, which helps guide mental health treatment and has been used by
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EHRs Need More Bananas, Fewer Oranges to Improve Care
Physicians are people, too, as it turns out.Well of course they are, you say, perhaps while acknowledging that we may have expected doctors to perform superhuman feats since television feeds us a steady diet of doctors as boy geniuses, adult geniuses, other types of geniuses and personally troubled but ethically unassailable walking Greek tragedies.In the real world, we know that doctors these days are engaged in very human struggles to pay off massive medical school bills, walk the gauntlet of
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Spectrum Health & Human Services to Implement Cerner’s Community Behavioral Health Cloud
Spectrum Health & Human Services, a Western New York-based provider of behavioral health services has selected Cerner to implement the Cerner Integrated – Community Behavioral Health deployment model designed to meet the unique needs of organizations that treat psychological disorders.The implementation will help support Spectrum’s work to improve the mental well-being of the people it serves throughout its health and human services agency in Western New York. Spectrum will receive a
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La Clinica de Familia to Implement eClinicalWorks EHR for Medical, Dental and Behavioral Health
La Clinica de Familia (LCDF), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico has selected the eClinicalWorks comprehensive EHR based on its need to systematically connect its primary care, dental care, behavioral health, and ancillary services to better meet all the patient’s health needs. Use of the eClinicalWorks cloud-based technology will support care coordination between providers, staff, and patients to enhance communication and improve the delivery of care.LCDF
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Meditech Launches New App Development Environment with API, FHIR Support
EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced the launch of their new app development, MEDITECH Greenfield. Greenfield lays the groundwork for visionaries and innovators to create a better future for providers, patients, and consumers, with technology that connects communities and enables better care.MEDITECH Greenfield OverviewSupported by RESTful APIs, including FHIR, Greenfield is an open space for MEDITECH customers and third-party developers to cultivate homegrown applications. MEDITECH's API
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Q-Apps Joins Epic App Orchard to Achieve Easier Data Interoperability
Q‑Centrix, a healthcare quality solutions provider, today announced it has listed its product Q-Apps on Epic App Orchard to enable data interoperability between hospital networks, quality solutions, and quality initiative reporting platforms.Joining Epic App Orchard and listing Q-Apps in the marketplace is the latest in a series of strategic moves by Q-Centrix to advance the value and efficiency of its quality data solutions. Other efforts have included utilizing natural language processing
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MEDHOST to Offer PatientKeeper Physician Workflow as an Option with its EHR Systems
PatientKeeper, Inc. and MEDHOST, Inc. today announced that they have entered a reseller agreement under which MEDHOST will be able to offer its hospital customers and prospects PatientKeeper's physician workflow software tightly integrated with MEDHOST's inpatient electronic health records (EHR) solution.PatientKeeper complements EHR systems with a range of instinctive applications that automate and streamline physicians' workflow, delivered with a uniquely physician-friendly user experience
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Cerner President Zane Burke to Step Down in November
EHR leader Cerner, today announced that Zane Burke will step down as President of the company, effective Nov. 2. Effective immediately, John Peterzalek, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Client Relationships, will assume Burke’s responsibilities and the title of Chief Client Officer.“We thank Zane for his contributions to Cerner across more than two decades,” said Cerner Chairman and CEO Brent Shafer. “Zane leaves the company with a strong client focus and commitment to continued innovation,
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