Allscripts has eliminated 250 jobs in the United States representing about 3.5 percent of its global workforce of about 7,200, Chicago Tribune reports. The layoffs stem from the the company expanding its software development and operations to India that will enable it to respond "more efficiently and cost-effectively" to changes in software design and product development.
"As a normal course of business, we are rebalancing our teams to ensure we have the right resources allocated to the right
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Erlanger Chooses Epic for $100M Integrated EHR
Earlier this month, Erlanger Health System announced that is has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR system that is expected to cost close to $100 million over 10 years. The new EHR system will incorporate clinical documentation from all areas of patient care into a single database for greater ease of use, better accuracy and timeliness, and the increased satisfaction of patients and clinicians, as patient information will be shared more easily. Epic reportedly
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Modernizing Medicine Integrates AUA’s Choosing Wisely Guidelines into Its EMR
Specialty practice EMR provider, Modernizing Medicine, Inc. has announced that it has incorporated the American Urological Association’s (AUA) 2013 Choosing Wisely® list in EMA Urology. EMA Urology was developed by urologists for urologists as a native iPad application with intuitive touch-screen functionality to give doctors a streamlined, efficient EMR system experience while improving the physician and patient relationship. It is the first urology-specific EMR system to incorporate the AUA’s
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European Providers Rank EHRs Top Investment Priority in 2015
EHRs are the first area where European healthcare providers are planning to invest during 2015 and beyond, according to a new survey from IDC Health Insights. The survey found 66% of survey respondents are planning to invest more in new solutions (especially non-hospital providers), either replacing the current solution or implementing it for the first time. The study describes European healthcare providers' investment trends on enterprise solutions and healthcare-specific solutions. It also
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Behavioral Health: We Need EHRs, But incentives Would Help
Editor's Note: D'Arcy Gue is one of the co-founders of Phoenix Health Systems, a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing firm. In April 2015, Phoenix welcomed a merger with Medsphere Systems Corporation and now serves as the vice president of industry relations for Phoenix Health Systems, the health IT services division of Medsphere.
Acute care hospitals have demonstrated what happens when you pay people—when you incentivize them—to do something.
Just 9.4 percent of
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“Failed” Promise of EHRs May Stand in Way of Precision Medicine
On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said that the “failed promise” of the $28 billion EHR program may stand in the way of a precision medicine initiative until physicians are able to use systems that communicate with one another. The statement was made during the committee’s innovation initiative to examine how we get safe drugs, devices, and treatments from the discovery process through the regulatory process into the medicine cabinets and doctors’ offices more quickly and
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KLAS: Epic, Cerner Rated Highest for Acute Care EMR Usability
Physician leadership at 110 healthcare organizations have rated Epic and Cerner highest for acute care EMR usability over the past two years, according to the latest KLAS report. The latest KLAS report, entitled “Physician Leadership Weighs In on Acute Care EMR Usability,” finds:
- Epic leads the industry in usability performance
- Cerner’s customers are making the most usability progress
- MEDITECH has distinguishes themselves as having "made up the most ground."
KLAS Report
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Former Hospital CFO Ordered to Pay $4.5M for Meaningful Use Fraud
Former Shelby Regional Medical Center CFO, Joe White has been ordered to pay more than $4.5 million in restitution for his role in a meaningful use fraud scheme, KXXV first reports. White pleaded guilty for directed its EHR vendor, eCareSoft and hospital employees to manually enter data from paper records into the EHR system after the patient was discharged to meet the MU thresholds criteria. Additionally, White also made false statements regarding other hospitals had successfully converting to
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Senate Health Committee Announce EHR Improvement Workgroups
On Wednesday, Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced a bipartisan, full committee working group to identify ways to improve electronic health records (EHRs).
“After $28 billion in taxpayer dollars spent subsidizing electronic health records, doctors don’t like these electronic medical record systems and say they disrupt workflow, interrupt the doctor-patient relationship and haven’t been worth the effort,” said
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Sen. Alexander Urges HHS Secretary To Fix Problems with EHRs
Last Thursday in a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FY2016 budget request from the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sen. Alexander asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell if she would commit to working to fix the problems with the electronic health record (EHR) system:
“Doctors don’t like their electronic medical record systems by large,” he said. “They say they disrupt the work flow. They interrupt the doctor-patient relationship. They haven’t been worth the
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