EMR/EHR

Electronic medical records (EMR) are a digital version of a patient’s chart that store their personal information, medical history and links to prior exams, texts and reports. The goal of these systems is to enable immediate access to the patient's data electronically, rather than needing to request paper file folders that might be stored in fragment files at numerous locations where a patient is seen or treated. EMRs (also called electronic health records, or EHR) improve clinician and health system efficiency by making all this data immediately available. This helps reduce repeat tests, repeat prescriptions and repeat imaging exams because reports, imaging or other patient data is not not immediately available. 

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IBM invests in EHR system to advance Watson

IBM has invested in Modernizing Medicine, a provider of cloud-based, specialty-specific EMR systems and other technologies that capture structured data, track outcomes and deliver clinical decision support.

MU Stage 3 and EHR certification proposed rules issued

The proposed rule for Meaningful Use Stage 3 has been released and it offers greater flexibility, simplification of requirements, more push for interoperability and a greater focus on patient outcomes to improve care.

Patient Engagement Platform Seeks Collaborative Partners

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., March 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- SOAPware Inc., an electronic health record (EHR), recently introduced myHEALTHware: the complete solution to patient care coordination.

Texas program links EHRs with smoking cessation initiative

The Texas Department of State Health Services is partnering with the University of Texas and Baylor Scott & White Health to launch a new tobacco cessation protocol called eTobacco.

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Antelope Valley Hospital on EHR downtime: Data were always safeguarded

“Never was our data in any danger. It was always safeguarded and we gave the nurses all the tools they needed to perform their jobs,” said Antelope Valley Hospital CIO Dale Lepper. Lepper spoke to Clinical Innovation + Technology to follow up on reports from the California Nurses Association that when the hospital’s EHR system went down for 38 hours in February, patient safety was at great risk.

Faulkner's strategy to keep Epic private

The 71-year-old CEO of privately held EHR giant Epic has no plans to slow down any time soon but has devised a plan to keep her company private well into the future.

ONC: Public health reporting numbers 'transformative'

Three years after the launch of the Meaningful Use program, at least half of participating hospitals are able to electronically send data to public health agenices for each of three pulbic health reporting measures.

Allscripts and Elsevier Join Forces to Elevate Health Care and Patient Outcomes for U.S. Military Members and Families

CHICAGO, March 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Celebrating a 10-year partnership, Allscripts (Nasdaq:MDRX) and Elsevier Clinical Solutions are raising the level of patient care decision-making support for clinicians by embedding Elsevier's CPM Framework in Allscripts Sunrise electronic health record (EHR).

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