EMR News
FierceEMR reports on trends and challenges surrounding electronic medical records. Find news on meaningful use, patient privacy, EMR adoption, ARRA, interoperability and more. For more information and analysis on these topics, please visit our health care reports.
Greenway officially announces IPO
Electronic health record vendor Greenway Medical Technologies announced the pricing of its long-awaited initial public offering at $10.00 per share for close to 6.7 million shares of common stock, Read more...
Cloud-based EHRs raise data rights questions
With cloud-based electronic health record systems becoming more popular, providers should carefully read their vendor contracts regarding their rights and use of their patients' data, according to Read more...
GE to discontinue EHR stand-alone product
Recognizing the limits of electronic health records systems that only offer EHR services, some vendors are consolidating their offerings. One example: GE Healthcare recently announced it will no Read more...
Health network hires ONC's community college consortia students for EHR implementation
When Aurora Health Care, Wisconsin's largest non-profit health network, needed to add to its staff in a hurry to implement its electronic health record system, it turned to some of "ONC's kids" for Read more...
Study: E-prescribing improves medication adherance
Patients are more likely to pick up their prescription drugs when their physicians use e-prescribing to order them. Assuming they then take the drugs they've purchased, this trend should improve Read more...
From Meaningful Use Stage 2 to stronger HIPAA regs, HHS gets ready to juggle
We all know that 2012 will be a watershed year for electronic health records systems. The Department of Health and Human Services' fall 2011 agenda, which it presented to the Office of Management and Read more...
EHRs improve care given to diabetics
Type 2 diabetic patients being treated by doctors who use electronic health records are more likely to receive "optimal care" for their condition, according to a recent study published in Health Read more...
Use EHRs to avoid unnecessary care
Electronic health records can do more than identify which patients should be receiving preventive and other additional services. They can also help providers pinpoint who shouldn't receive care. Read more...
Better provider support needed for EHR data capture
Electronic health records can help providers document their performance. But they're only as good as their users--and plenty of providers are abdicating their responsibility to add information to Read more...
Meaningful Use Stage 2 a high priority on HHS regulatory agenda
The next few months are going to be chock-full of new regulations affecting electronic health records systems. That's the scoop from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' latest regulatory Read more...
VA ready to consolidate EHR data centers
The move to consolidate the electronic health records systems for the military just took another step forward, with the announcement that the Department of Veterans Affairs will begin transitioning Read more...
EHR implementation more difficult for physician owners
Physician owners report more difficulty in implementing electronic health records at their practices than other users, likely because they have more financial and personal responsibility in the Read more...
Patient-specific, eye catching alerts less likely to be ignored
Want doctors to read the alerts they receive in their electronic health records systems? Then make them more patient-specific and interesting to read. That's the skinny from a recent study published Read more...
Electronic alerting system improves documentation of patient problems
Using an automatic alert system in providers' EHR systems "significantly" increases the documentation of previously unknown patient problems, which could potentially facilitate quality improvement. Read more...
CCHIT chair: Tips to use EHRs to improve safety
How well can your EHR system protect patients from substandard patient care? Evidently quite a bit, according to Karen Bell, chair of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology Read more...
