Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine will begin charging patients for MyChart messages that require more than 5 minutes of a provider’s time starting Sept. 12, KETV Omaha reported Aug. 29.
Category: Health IT
Oklahoma hospital selects new EHR
Bethany (Okla.) Children’s Health Center, a 160-bed pediatric hospital, selected Meditech Expanse as its EHR vendor.
Artificial Intelligence May Influence Whether You Can Get Pain Medication
To contain the opioid crisis, health and law enforcement agencies have turned to technology to monitor doctor and patient prescription data. Experts have raised questions about how these systems work and worry about their accuracy and potential biases. Some patients and doctors say they’re being unfairly targeted.
Epic's sepsis model less timely, study finds
EHR vendor Epic’s sepsis prediction model was found to be more accurate than other models at higher threshold prediction, but was found to have missed a higher share of true cases and was less timely than other existing sepsis tools, an Aug. 25 study p…
Top 9 EHRs for community hospitals, per Black Book Research
The Sunrise EHR from Altera Digital Health was named the top EHR for community hospitals by Black Book Research.
Epic in the last 30 days
From deepening its relationship with Microsoft and Nuance to releasing a new online app gallery, here are seven updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in August:
California hospital to use state loan to install Cerner
El Centro Regional Medical Center will use $3.5 million of its $28 million loan from California to install a Cerner EHR.
Almost 90% of telehealth visits do not require in-person follow-up
About 89 percent of telehealth visits nationally do not require an in-person follow-up visit for the same clinical reason within one week, according to an Aug. 20 study from Trilliant health.
What 5 hospitals are paying their Epic talent
Health systems in New York and California are seeking EHR talent with a posted salary of more than $100,000.
VA CIO 'cautiously optimistic' about Cerner rollout
Kurt DelBene, CIO of the Department of Veterans Affairs, said despite the troubles the department has had with its $16 billion Oracle Cerner EHR rollout, he is still “cautiously optimistic” about it, FedScoop reported Aug. 25.
