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Walgreens to Implement Epic EHR Across Its 400 Clinics

by HITC Staff 11/06/2015 Leave a Comment

Epic Systems

On Thursday, retail pharmacy giant Walgreens announced it will implement Epic's EHR platform across 400 of its healthcare clinics starting in early 2016. The move to EpicCare will help further enhance care coordination among providers, while also supporting the long-term growth plan for its clinic business.  “We’re pleased to welcome Walgreens to the Epic family and look forward to supporting their goal of improving access to high quality, coordinated care,” said Carl Dvorak, Epic president.
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VHA Appoints Fred Mingo To Lead Vista EHR Evolution

by HITC Staff 11/04/2015 Leave a Comment

Former Navy officer Fred Mingo has been appointed by the Veterans Health Administration to serve as the VHA's deputy program executive for Vista Evolution, a multibillion-dollar, multiyear plan to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs' Vista EHR system. Mingo previously served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for professional and IT services firm ICF International.  The VistA Evolution Program’s chief goal is achieving seamless interoperability with DoD and other healthcare
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eClinicalWorks Expands to UK, Opens New Office in London

by HITC Staff 11/02/2015 Leave a Comment

eClinicalWorks EHR

After recently launching their new next generation ambulatory EHR solution, eClinicalWorks® is expanding its global footprint to the UK market and has inked a deal with Specsavers,  an eye-care service provider that offers its services in over 1,700 stores across 10 countries. To support its growth in the UK, the company also announced it is opening a new office in London. During the past year, eClinicalWorks has secured $100 million in international business and this expansion is the latest in
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AMA, MedStar Health Partner to Drive Improvements in EHR Usability

by HITC Staff 10/27/2015 Leave a Comment

In an effort to promote transparency around how EHRs are designed and user-tested, and drive improvements in clinician support and patient safety, the American Medical Association (AMA) and MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare have developed a comparative EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Framework that shows a lack of focus among regulators and industry on user-centered design and usability testing. EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Framework Overview The
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Baptist Health Care to Implement Allscripts Sunrise EHR

by HITC Staff 10/21/2015 Leave a Comment

Pensacola, Florida-based Baptist Health Care Corporation has selected Allscripts Sunrise EHR solution to improve the quality and safety of patient care and better manage their business operations over Cerner and Epic. The Allscripts solution will provide Baptist with a single, comprehensive health care record for every patient that is accessible by clinicians at any point of care, including hospitals, ambulatory sites, physician practices and other trading partners. Non-clinical departments will
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Former Epic Employees Raises $3.5M for EHR Integration API

by HITC Staff 10/20/2015 Leave a Comment

Redox Integration Approach

Founded by former Epic engineers, Redox, a health IT startup helping developers integrate with EHRs and health systems manage their connections to the cloud, today announced it has raised $3.5M in Series A funding led by .406 Ventures with participation by Flybridge Capital Partners and HealthX Ventures. The company hopes to solve the EHR interoperability problem with their RESTful API designed to help apps share data with almost any EHR vendor at any health system.   Redox's
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KLAS: athenahealth, Epic Leads Industry in Interoperability

by Fred Pennic 10/20/2015 Leave a Comment

KLAS Interoperability Report

athenahealth and Epic leads the industry in overall interoperability, while eClinicalWorks, McKesson, GE, and NextGen are described as "interoperability laggards," according to recent findings in KLAS' inaugural interoperability report. The report, “Interoperability 2015: Are We Lifting Together?” highlights how provider organizations rate their EMR vendors in terms of how proactive and effective they are in sharing patient data outside their organization. For the report, KLAS interviewed more
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KLAS: Top EHR Executives Agree to Publish Interoperability Metrics

by HITC Staff 10/19/2015 Leave a Comment

EMR Market Share_KLAS Report Providers Seek Vendors Help for Clinical Decision Support

To help resolve some of the key interoperability challenges in the health IT industry, several key EHR and provider stakeholders are collaborating to finally make interoperability a viable measurement tool. Convened during the KLAS Keystone Summit in Midway, Utah,  Micky Tripathi, President and CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, led and moderated the summit with EHR stakeholders on how KLAS will publish objective measures of interoperability and ongoing reporting.  Executives who
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Why I Despise my EHR, But I’m Still Using It

by Robert Rowley MD 10/19/2015 3 Comments

  Modern electronic health records (EHRs) have become the norm in U.S. health care — nearly 80 percent of office-based physicians use them, up from 40 percent in 2009, according to federal data. But while adoption is up, satisfaction has plummeted. In 2010, about 61 percent of physicians liked their EHRs (were satisfied or very satisfied, according to periodic AMA surveys). This dropped to 48 percent in 2012, and in 2014 satisfaction rates were only 34%. Physicians have come to
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eClinicalWorks Offers Hospitals Free Interopreability with Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, Meditech & McKesson

by HITC Staff 10/19/2015 Leave a Comment

eClinicalWorks to Offer Hospitals Free Interopreability with Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, Meditech & McKesson

eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider has announced free hospital interoperability of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) data using a query-based exchange with Cerner, Epic, McKesson, Meditech and Siemens, and is extending this integration to all hospital systems in the industry. Available now to customers, this seamless data transfer between systems facilitates coordination of care between inpatient and ambulatory settings to enable complete, accurate and relevant information at
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