While direct entry is the most common documentation method, physicians who use personalized documentation tools report the highest levels of EHR satisfaction, according to a KLAS Arch Collaborative...
Health IT vendor NextGen Healthcare has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by software investment firm Thoma Bravo.
Once the deal is complete, NextGen Healthcare will become a...
Bethany Children's Health Center in Bethany, Oklahoma, will implement the MEDITECH Expanse EHR to support interoperability across its 160-bed hospital, outpatient clinics, and rehabilitation...
A top Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) official is “cautiously optimistic” that its renegotiated contract terms with health IT vendor Oracle Cerner will improve the agency’s...
While the accuracy of a proprietary sepsis prediction model from Epic outperformed other tools at higher threshold predictions, poor timeliness limits its application for clinical decision support...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded The Sequoia Project a five-year contract to continue serving as the recognized coordinating entity (RCE) for...
According to reporting from Reuters, EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare is exploring options that include a sale of the company.
People familiar with the matter told the news outlet that the company has...
A federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Connecticut has implementedpopulation health solutions from health IT vendor eClinicalWorks to enhance care quality.
In particular, the Connecticut...
Participation in Epic EHR education initiatives, like the Physician Power User and Physician Builders programs, is linked to higher clinician satisfaction, according to a KLAS Arch Collaborative...
Epic has expanded its partnership with Microsoft to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to healthcare at scale by deploying conversational, ambient, and generative AI technologies across clinical...
Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) has partnered with health IT vendor Smile Digital Health to drive health information exchange (HIE) interoperability across the state.
As...
According to a study published in JAMIA, a willingness to learn on the job by asking questions was important for resident development in EHR use and clinical documentation.
Researchers...
Nashville General Hospital has announced that it will now use CommunityWorks to meet its clinical, financial, and operational goals.
The Oracle Cerner will replace Nashville General Hospital’s...
EHR vendor Epic has announced a collaboration with health IT vendor Abridge to support generative AI clinical documentation workflows.
The collaboration will make Abridge’s generative AI-based...
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced two awards totaling $2 million under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health Information Technology...
Microsoft Corp. has expanded its partnership with Epic by releasing a solution for healthcare organizations to manage large Epic EHR database loads using public cloud-hosted infrastructure.
The Azure...
Aetna, a CVS Health company, has awarded Georgia’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE) $200,000 for a pilot project to drive social determinants of health (SDOH)...
Midland Community Healthcare Services (MCHS), a federally qualified health care center (FQHC) in Texas, recently implemented an eClinicalWorks EHR to drive interoperability and patient engagement.
The...
Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Calif.), Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), and Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) have introduced an act to support behavioral health...
According to a study published in Health Affairs, poor immunization data interoperability hampered primary care providers’ COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
Researchers analyzed data from the...