Category: EHRs

A study at Worcester, Mass.-based UMass Chan Medical School is analyzing how to effectively integrate data from wearables into EHRs.

Multiple VA medical facilities across the U.S. reported an EHR slowdown earlier this week, according to The Spokesman-Review.

Several hospitals and health systems now charge patients for electronic messages through patient portals like Epic’s MyChart.

Here is how much three health systems are expected to pay for the cost of purchasing, installing and upgrading a new or current electronic health record system:

Meditech has partnered with interoperability and connectivity services provider MedAllies to integrate clinical direct messaging into its EHR system. 

Boston-based Tufts Medicine reported EHR installation costs of around $70 million last year, according to The Boston Globe.

Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is moving to an Epic EHR system. 

Here are 5 health systems that have implemented new EHR systems or announced plans to do so since Dec. 30:

Fifty-five percent of health system IT executives at top U.S. health systems said they will increase their organization’s investment in interoperability initiatives by 5 to 20 percent in 2023, according to a recent report by healthcare interoperability…

Amberwell Health Hiawatha (Kan.) and Amberwell Highland Clinic went live with a Meditech Expanse EHR system on Nov. 1, Atchison Globe reported Jan. 20.