The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act provided providers with a significant financial incentive to increase the adoption and use of EHRs. EHR vendors were required to conduct and report on a summative usability evaluation of their system as part of the Stage 2 Meaningful Use program (The ONC 2014 Edition Certification). However, a recent report funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), identified several “issues” with the certified EHR vendors in the processes, practices and use of standards and best practices with regard to usability and human factors.
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EHR Usability Cause Of Key Pain Points For Healthcare CIOs
Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | October 22, 2014
EHR adoption is increasing, but EHR usability remains a problem for end-users trying to enter and access data efficiently...
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EHR Usability Gaps -- ONC and AHRQ Identify Serious Shortcomings of Certified EHRs
By Bennett Lauber | May 16, 2016
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EHRs critical to 'learning health system' model
Marla Durben Hirsch | Fierce EMR | August 24, 2015
Electronic health records can help create network-based learning health systems to integrate chronic care management, quality improvement and research, according to a study published in the August edition of eGEMS (Generating Evidence and Methods to Improve Patient Outcomes).
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EHRs Key To Medication Reconciliation
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | July 29, 2014
Electronic health records have a big role to play in improving hospitals' medication reconciliation, a new study finds, but challenges related to data quality, technology and workflow remain...
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Epic Grabs VA Software Contract
Tom Sullivan | Healthcare IT News | August 27, 2015
Epic, along with Lockheed Martin subsidiary Systems Made Simple, inked a five-year $624 million contract with Veterans Affairs. The deal is nowhere near the $4.3 billon that DoD awarded Cerner and Leidos for the first phase, of course, but it does hold the potential for a big payoff – publicity-wise at least – because the work Epic and SMS signed up to undertake addresses one of VA's most public pain points: patient scheduling.
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Epic Systems Says Alliance Between Electronic Health Records Vendors Caught It By Surprise
Zina Moukheiber | Forbes | March 5, 2013
In a bid to put a private sector stamp on the push for interoperability, a group of electronic health records vendors led by Cerner and McKesson formed the CommonWell Health Alliance yesterday. Read More »
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Expect an Upcoming Shake-up of Health IT Vendors in the Marketplace
By Peter Groen | October 30, 2013
Medical Economics just published their report listing the "The Top 100 EHR Companies in 2013". It makes for very interesting reading. According to the report, best estimates by the government currently show over 700 companies that now offer 'certified' electronic health record (EHR) systems to healthcare providers. These companies range from publically-traded software companies to start-up enterprises - and everything in between. However, the future viability of these vendors and their EHR systems has become an issue. 'Open source' EHR alternatives may offer a low risk alternative to many of proprietary vendors on the list. Read More »
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Federal Incentive Payments For EHRs To Doctors And Hospitals Edge $24 Billion
Bob Brewin | Nextgov.com | June 12, 2014
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services paid out the equivalent of the gross national product of Costa Rica -- $23.7 billion -- to hospitals and medical professionals from 2011 through April 2014 to adopt electronic health records.
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FTC, ONC put vendors on notice
Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | October 10, 2014
The Federal Trade Commission has some news for health IT vendors whose zeal for competitive marketshare outweighs their willingness to share data: they're watching, and will step in where necessary. "We are working with ONC staff to identify potential competition issues relating to health IT platforms and standards, market concentration, conduct by market participants, and the ability of health IT purchasers to make informed buying decisions," wrote FTC officials in a blog post this week.
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Group of Electronic Health Record Vendors To Become Officially Interoperable
Zina Moukheiber | Forbes.com | June 10, 2014
A group of electronic health record vendors that announced to much fanfare plans to facilitate the exchange of patient data more than a year ago, will start rolling out that facility to their customers this summer...CommonWell Health Alliance members, which include Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth and Greenway, have embedded within their software code that allows health care providers to find and share a patient’s medical information, wherever it might be...
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Growth Slow for CommonWell Alliance Data Exchange Effort
Joseph Goedert | Health Data Management | August 25, 2015
Five Pacific Northwest clients of electronic health records vendor Cerner have joined the CommonWell Health Alliance that offers health information exchange. The new clients demonstrate growth of the alliance while at the same time showing some of its continuing weaknesses. Read More »
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Halamka's Report on the Joint HIT Standards and Policy Committee Meeting
By John D. Halamka, MD | October 11, 2015
All the members of the ONC Federal Advisory Committees met in Washington to review delivery system reform and the Interoperability Roadmap. We began the meeting with a thank you to Jodi Daniel, who will be leaving ONC after 10 years of service. Elizabeth Holland presented a data update on the Meaningful Use program. She noted that 2015 attestation will open Jan 4, 2016-Feb 29, 2016. The Meaningful Use Stage 2 final rule has not yet been released (but rumor suggests it may be released later today). Next, Karen DeSalvo presented a Delivery System Reform Update setting the context for the kinds of interoperability needed in the future as fee for service is replaced by population-based payment.
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Halamka: A Time of Great Turmoil in Healthcare IT Policy Making
By John D. Halamka, MD | May 19, 2015
We are in a time of great turmoil in healthcare IT policy making. We have the CMS and ONC Notices of Proposed Rulemaking for Meaningful Use Stage 3, both of which need to be radically pared down. We have the Burgess Bill which attempts to fix interoperability with the blunt instrument of legislation. Most importantly we have the 21st Century Cures Act, which few want to publicly criticize. I’m happy to serve as the lightening rod for this discussion, pointing out the assumptions that are unlikely to be helpful and most likely to be hurtful. Read More »
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Health Information Exchanges Report Information Blocking
Kate Monica | EHR Intelligence | March 23, 2017
Despite widespread disapproval and Congressional scrutiny, information blocking remains a problem for health information exchanges working to connect providers and their EHR systems. Drawing data from a national survey of 60 HIE leaders, a new study by researchers at University of Michigan Schools of Information and Public Health found information blocking to be widespread and the policies in place to mitigate the practice ineffective...
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Healthy Skepticism – Jared Sinclair's Critique of HealthKit as Both an iOS Developer and Registered Nurse
By Jared Sinclair | June 24, 2014
Of the many new APIs announced at WWDC this summer, HealthKit has been particularly thought-provoking for me. At the risk of sounding like that guy, I think I have a somewhat priviledged perspective of HealthKit. There can’t be that many former registered nurses who’ve switched to iOS app development and tried to start a healthcare data company.
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