Category: Health IT

Oregon VA system to reset Cerner EHR

VA Roseburg (Ore.) Health Care System is one of the few VA medical facilities to go live with the Cerner EHR system, but due to its ongoing troubles, it will reset the system to fix its issues, The News-Review reported May 12. 

EHR vendor NextGen hit with 7 data breach lawsuits

NextGen Healthcare, a provider of EHR software, is facing seven lawsuits after a March data breach compromised the protected health information of more than 1 million patients, Bloomberg Law reported May 12. 

Surviving TMI and AI: the importance of self-initiated self-learning for future physicians

Although adult education is meant to be accomplished without spoon-feeding, academic physicians find it challenging to avoid spoon-feeding their medical students, residents, and fellows when designing curriculums for them during medical school and grad…

Indiana health system adds e-check-in tool to Epic

Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health has added electronic check-in options to its Epic EHR system.

AI May Be on Its Way to Your Doctor’s Office, But It’s Not Ready to See Patients

Giant corporations like Microsoft and Google, plus many startups, are eyeing health care profits from programs based on artificial intelligence.

Community Health Access Network taps new EHR partner

Newmarket, N.H.-based Community Health Access Network, a network that delivers training and assistance to 250 providers across New Hampshire, Vermont and Texas, is tapping athenaOne as its new EHR partner.

Medicare telehealth flexibilities to remain in place until 2024

The COVID-19 public health emergency is set to expire on May 11, but telehealth flexibilities for people with Medicare will remain in place until Dec. 31, 2024, according to the HHS. 

Navigating the ethics of AI in surgery: Balancing bias and accountability for safer procedures

An excerpt from Future Care: Sensors, Artificial Intelligence, and the Reinvention of Medicine. In the past I have used magnetic navigation using Stereotaxis equipment to perform procedures. I could sit out in the console room, more than twelve feet fr…

VA pharmacists say Cerner EHR system increases manual workload

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Oracle executives testified before Congress on May 9 about the ongoing issues associated with the pharmacy functions of its Cerner EHR system that contributed to the death of a veteran in Ohio, The Spokesman Revie…

5 EHR do's and don'ts for residents: AMA

EHRs are ubiquitous in healthcare and present a great way for resident physicians to free up time to spend at the patient bedside, the American Medical Association wrote May 9.