By Sarai Rodriguez
August 04, 2023 – SoutheastHEALTH is set to join Mercy’s multi-hospital system through a recently signed definitive agreement, a move that will allow the health system to leverage Mercy’s Epic EHR system.
This agreement…
By Hannah Nelson
August 04, 2023 – The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has awarded health IT vendor PointClickCare Technologies a contract to implement a behavioral health treatment…
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By Hannah Nelson
August 02, 2023 – The House has passed appropriations legislation that would allocate $1.9 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR modernization program for fiscal year 2024 if passed into law,…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
August 02, 2023 – An ONC analysis shows that 83 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals participate in some social determinants of health (SDOH) data collection. Still, challenges related to routine screening data…
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By Hannah Nelson
July 31, 2023 – Health IT vendor Surescripts has settled its case with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) without monetary penalties.
The FTC filed an antitrust lawsuit against Surescripts in April 2019 for allegedly monopolizing…
By Sarai Rodriguez
July 28, 2023 – Primary Care Joliet, an Illinois-based healthcare organization, has initiated an eClinicalWorks EHR implementation.
This recent move aims to streamline administrative workflows, thereby reducing costs and maintaining patient health outside the…
By Hannah Nelson
July 28, 2023 – Perceived EHR work stress was significantly associated with clinician burnout across all specialties, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Researchers invited attending physicians at UC San Diego Health System…
By Hannah Nelson
July 27, 2023 – Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced AWS HealthScribe, a generative AI-based service to support automatic clinical documentation.
With AWS HealthScribe, health IT providers can use a single API to…
By Hannah Nelson
July 26, 2023 – The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has deployed a private 5G network from Verizon at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System to improve patient care delivery.
The deployment is…
By Hannah Nelson
July 24, 2023 – While the COVID-19 pandemic increased patient EHR message volume across specialties, women physicians experienced a significantly greater message increase, according to a study published in JAMIA.
Researchers analyzed EHR…
