Category: Health IT

New primary care decision support tools make offloading below-license tasks from the EHR more important than ever

Clinical decision support tools in the EHR are gaining momentum. These exciting and meaningful innovations are challenging us to make room for them to flourish. New technology is often disruptive before it finds its way to being helpful. In the late 18…

Minnesota health system selects Meditech

Glenwood, Minn.-based Glacial Ridge Health System selected Meditech as its new EHR platform.

Which primary care providers use EHRs the least?

Primary care providers who practice at community health centers spend less time in EHRs than counterparts who work elsewhere, a study in JAMA Network Open found.

Cerner in the last 30 days

Oracle Cerner, the nation’s second-largest EHR company by acute hospital share, had a busy past month signing hospitals and working on government contracts. Here are nine times Becker’s reported on the vendor in the last 30 days.

NextGen lays off more workers after sale to private equity firm

EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare is conducting more layoffs in Pennsylvania and Maryland after laying off 84 St. Louis-area workers in November. 

10 Epic updates in 30 days

From winning damages in an ongoing legal battle to inking additional hospital and health system EHR partnerships, here are 10 updates on Epic’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s in the past month:

20 hospitals selecting Oracle Health in 2023

Oracle Health has had a busy 2023 as it expanded its presence among smaller community hospitals and even cracked into the overseas markets.

Revolutionizing patient care: the convergence of AI and personalized medicine

In the dynamic realm of health care, two revolutionary forces are converging to redefine patient care: artificial intelligence (AI) and personalized medicine. This synergy transforms how we understand, diagnose, and treat diseases, tailoring health car…

Defense Department nears completion of EHR install

The Defense Department’s MHS Genesis EHR installation is “virtually complete” at military hospitals and clinics, GovCIO reported Nov. 21.

AMA: Stop CC'ing your colleagues on EHR messages

U.S. physicians get three times as many EHR messages as their counterparts in other countries but could cut back on them by not copying their colleagues on communications, the American Medical Association reported.