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NewsCost of EMR ownership often much higher than expected
Surprise, surprise! Even as buyers have grown more savvy and able to find a cost-effective EMR, the true cost of ownership of an acute-care EMR often is far higher than expected, KLAS Enterprises... Read more...
Report: Epic likely to get massive contract to replace DoD's AHLTA EHR
A week ago, FierceEMR reported that the man who would be top doc at the Pentagon--Dr. Jonathan Woodson, President Obama's nominee for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs--wants the... Read more...
Survey: 85 percent of HIT professionals planning EHR implementation by end of 2011
Clinical information technology has arrived. According to a newly released report from San Francisco-based Embarcadero Technologies, EHR implementation is the top priority of health IT professionals,... Read more...
Analysis: Epic leads ambulatory EMR market, but no vendor dominates
The EMR market is crowded, somewhat immature and rapidly growing. Characterizing it beyond such vague generalities is tough, but that hasn't stopped some from trying. Austin, Texas-based Software... Read more...
Wisconsin governor creates statewide HIE
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle this week signed into law a bill establishing a statewide network for health information exchange. The bill puts into use $9.4 million in HIE money the state received from... Read more...
Speech recognition helps Fallon Clinic realize transcription savings from EMR
Fallon Clinic in Worcester, Mass., has had EMRs in one form or another since 1992. Most recently, the multispecialty group practice replaced its home-grown system with an Epic Systems EMR, a project... Read more...
Sutter accelerates $400 million EMR installation
Sutter Health is accelerating its $400 million project to install an inpatient Epic Systems EMR in all 26 of its hospitals in Northern California, nearly two-and-a-half years after slowing down the... Read more...
Kaiser completes systemwide EMR rollout
After 10 years and $4 billion, Kaiser Permanente has completed the largest private-sector EMR rollout in the world, as three hospitals in Northern California recently went online with bar-coded... Read more...
Best-of-breed falling out of favor with ED physicians
Just days after announcing that vendor satisfaction for ambulatory EMRs dropped in 2009, KLAS Enterprises reports that emergency departments are starting to favor a single-vendor over the... Read more...
Vendor satisfaction falls across the board in 2009 'Best in KLAS'
This can't bode well for the upcoming rush to install EMRs in 2010: Vendor satisfaction rates are down pretty much across the board in this year's ambulatory Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards from Orem,... Read more...
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