By Hannah Nelson
May 17, 2023 – Clinician EHR documentation time went down slightly following changes to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) coding requirements, according to a research letter…
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by Implementations/Deployments 05/11/2023 Leave a CommentWhat You Should Know:A group of 21 Ontario-based hospitals and facilities launches Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange (HIE) powered by Oracle Health. The Ontario eHub can help these healthcare organizations…
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What You Should Know:Get Well, a global leader in digital patient engagement, today announced it has expanded its industry-leading digital patient engagement portfolio to include new social determinants of health (SDOH) screening solutions.The new solution…
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By Hannah Nelson
May 10, 2023 – House legislators pressed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials and Oracle executives during a hearing Tuesday regarding problems with the pharmacy features of the agency’s new Oracle Cerner EHR…
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Hackers breach the systems of NextGen Healthcare and access the information of one million patients, according to a filed breach report.
The company says that its cloud-based NextGen Office EHR/PM was accessed using…
By Hannah Nelson
April 28, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) experienced a systemwide outage of its Oracle Cerner EHR earlier this week, according to reporting from Federal News Network.
The outage impacted the…
By Hannah Nelson
April 27, 2023 – House lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would reform the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) EHR Modernization (EHRM) program if passed into law, according to reporting from FedScoop.
Since 2020, VA…
On Monday, Rep. Mike Takano, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and the committee’s Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., introduced companion legislation to the EHR Program RESET Act of 2023 offered…
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By Hannah Nelson
April 26, 2023 – Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) is calling for the termination of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Oracle Cerner EHR system.
“The Oracle Cerner electronic health record…
Oracle announced Seema Verma, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will head up its life sciences division.Verma will serve as senior vice president and general manager for life sciences, where…
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