What You Should Know:
MEDITECH offers Expanse Ambulatory and Patient Portal
users complimentary deployment of our Scheduled Virtual Visits functionality
for a six-month period.
This solution, deployed through MEDITECH’s rapid response
team, can assist customers in battling the spread of the COVID-19, reducing
unnecessary risk to others and identifying the patients in need of care.
In an effort to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic, MEDITECH announced it will offer all
customers
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds
What You Need to Know:
- New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent).
- Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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Xealth Joins Epic App Orchard for EHR-Driven Digital Health Engagement
What You Need to Know:
- Xealth announces it has joined the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to drive digital health engagement for health systems using Epic EHR by optimizing the ordering, delivery, and monitoring of your digital health apps, content, products, and services across the enterprise.
- Through the secure Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order the right digital health tools and programs for patients direct from the EHR workflow, send these digital health orders to the
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MedBridge Partners with Redox to Expand Its Network of EMR Integrations
- MedBridge partners with healthcare integration platform Redox that will allow MedBridge users to quickly create and assign Home Exercise Programs, and more easily document within their EMR, without interrupting their workflow.
- MedBridge EMR integrated clients have already achieved savings of over $4,500 per clinician per year, by reducing five minutes of documentation time per patient.
MedBridge, the industry-leading continuing education and patient engagement solution that enables
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Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push.
One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as the foundation -- i.e., the platform enabling application development and user access.
But when it comes developing an EHR-based marketplace for
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HHS Issues Strategies & Recommendations to Mitigate EHR-Related Clinician Burden
- HHS issues new report outlining the key sources of EHR-related burden, as well as strategies and recommendations to achieve burden reduction goals for healthcare providers.
- The HHS report reflects additional input from the more than 200 comments submitted in response to the draft strategy and recommendations.
As part of the
ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between patients and their
doctors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) issued
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After Advent Health, Atrium Health to Replace Cerner with Epic EHR
- Charlotte-based health system Atrium Health announces it will replace Cerner electronic health system (EHR) with Epic EHR.
- The announcement marks the second health system to depart Cerner this month after AdventHealth announced it will replace Cerner and switch to Epic’s enterprise EHR and revenue cycle management system.
Atrium Health, one
of the nation’s most highly integrated not-for-profit healthcare systems based
in Charlotte, N.C. will replace their Cerner EHR system with its
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Scientists Develop Machine Learning Algorithms Using EMR Data to Predict Dementia
- Researchers develop and tested machine learning algorithms using EMR data to identify patients who may be at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
- Researchers gathered data on patients from the Indiana Network for Patient Care using the information on prescriptions and diagnoses, which are structured fields, as well as medical notes, which are free text, to predict the onset of dementia.
Information gathered from routine visits to the doctor is enough to
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CarePort’s Epic-Built Referral Platform Launches in Epic App Orchard
- CarePort Health, a provider of care coordination and post-acute outcomes management, announces that CarePort Transition Extender is now available in the Epic App Orchard marketplace.
- With the Transition Extender, Epic EHR users can embed CarePort Transition, a post-acute referral management application, within their discharge planning workflow to streamline the creation, sending and management of post-acute referrals from directly within the EHR.
CarePort Health, a
pioneer in
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Are EHRs A Guard Against Human Nature?
Because we have big brains and have been to the moon and have invented remarkably complex stuff, the idea persists that human beings are inherently rational. This idea is both untrue and ironic, but not in a black-fly-in-the-chardonnay way.
Rational beings, by definition, would make decisions based on proven, reliable data and learned the reason. Most of the time, human beings use impulses, moods, emotions and urges to make decisions, all the while believing they are the reincarnation of
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