Helen Newberry (Mich.) Joy Hospital and Healthcare Center and Midland-based MyMichigan Health joined forces to implement a new Epic EMR system for patients at Helen Newberry.
Category: EHRs
Cerner CEO, chief technology officer agree not to leave after Oracle acquisition
Cerner’s president and CEO, David Feinberg, MD, as well as its executive vice president and chief technology officer, Jerome Labat, have agreed not to leave the company in the year following its acquisition by Oracle, according to a Jan. 19 filing with…
Patients who are Black, unmarried or on government insurance described more negatively in EHR, study shows
The language clinicians use in their EHR notes varies by patients’ race, marital status and type of insurance, according to a study published Jan. 19 in Health Affairs.
Interoperability not guaranteed between hospitals using same EHR, study finds
Hospitals using the same EHR vendor were found to be more interoperable than hospitals that did not use the same vendor, but interoperability is never guaranteed, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Associa…
Henry Ford Health using EHR to screen for human trafficking victims
An EHR system used by Henry Ford Health System is helping staff identify victims of human trafficking.
Wyoming hospital to deploy Cerner EHR in February
Rock Springs, Wyo.-based Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County is integrating Cerner’s EHR system to offer better patient care, and the new program is set to launch Feb. 28, according to a Jan. 13 Rocket Miner report.
Epic integrates MapQuest to help patients find providers
Epic selected acquisition marketing platform System1’s MapQuest Business-to-Business service to help patients reach healthcare providers.
Minnesota hospital reduces postpartum hemorrhages 40% after retooling EHR
Robbinsdale, Minn.-based North Memorial Hospital used an EHR to create a screening tool that would predict, identify and guide postpartum hemorrhages, resulting in a 40 percent reduction, according to a Jan. 10 report in EpicShare.
Linking EHR data key to maximizing clinical trial insights, Cerner exec says
Hospitals face challenges when conducting clinical trials, such as high costs, difficulty recruiting patients and a lack of resources. Health systems facing these obstacles can accelerate research by extracting insights from EHR data, according to a Ja…
Meditech to launch online training program for Expanse users
Meditech partnered with New York City-based MedPower, a cloud-hosted e-learning solution, to bring interactive online training courses to healthcare organizations for its Expanse EHR.
