Interoperability & EHRs

What you need to know to succeed in health IT and beyond.

An executive remarked that success in improving interoperability with the VA “was limited by an outdated congressional mandate—until now.”

In a new commentary, Penn Medicine experts suggest how they can be taken from static documents and made into intuitive tools.

In a recent shareholder meeting, Zane Burke used the term "fake news" and insinuated that negative stories may have been influenced by the company's competitors.

The Navy veteran and longtime DoD executive has a history in Washington, though he doesn't appear to have much healthcare experience in his background.

The EMR deal is done. What does it mean for medicine?

After almost a year of waiting, the EHR giant has finally announced a formal agreement with the nation's largest integrated health system.

The VA has flaws. But Andrew Cohen, MD, thinks US healthcare has more to learn from VA than VA does from the rest of US healthcare.

A decade ago, no one could have projected the demand—nor the headaches—that the technology now creates.

A consortium of 10 providers is linking with a health information exchange, and the implications extend beyond any single state.

During a recent call with shareholders, Cerner executives spent very little time discussing the DoD situation, instead focusing on the VA deal they still expect to be signed shortly.

Some names work for voice assistant technology. Some don't.

And to celebrate, the founders made a human pyramid.

"It’s a combination of 20- or 30-year-old technologies that allow systems to interoperate...I don’t want to hear anyone asking if this is mature technology."

Experts are trying to bring the public-private interoperability effort to your community.

Does the new meeting have what it takes to break the mold?

The EHR vendor nabbed the patient engagement company for $60 million, according to an SEC filing.

"This would be a different conversation had this VA Secretary been in place at the end of the first quarter," the company's president said.

Some healthcare organizations leverage data to combat addiction, but the practice must expand, argues Surescripts.

Robin AI has rebranded itself as Suki, and big names are getting behind its vision for a physician voice assistant.

On a number of patient safety and quality metrics, the agency's health centers outperformed commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid HMOs.

The agency's former Chief Information Officer, who resigned last week, doesn't think the VA's leadership turnover will jeopardize its Cerner plans.

With its EHR modernization efforts in limbo, the agency's top IT boss has stepped aside.

Despite widespread adoption of the technology, health systems and clinicians are still trying to find best practices.

New research showed that interruptions drastically increase a nurse's mental workload during EMR documentation.