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Epic Module Targets Patients For Care Coordination

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Anne Zieger

At Gundersen Lutheran Health System, executives have put together a program to target the 1 to 2 percent of those most likely to be hospitalized, seen in the emergency department or face other complications. To manage the program, the La … Continue reading →

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Cleveland Clinic Brings Epic Smarts To NY Hospital Practices

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Anne Zieger

The Cleveland Clinic is going the consulting route, this time around by working with the physician and specialty practices for a New York hospital to bring Epic up to speed. Glens Falls is a 410-bed nonprofit which began implementing the … Continue reading →

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W. VA. Rolls Out Enhancements To VistA

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Officials with the West Virginia bureau of behavior health and health facilities are putting some finishing touches on VistA installations cutting across the state, adding computerized laboratory information to a six-year-old implementation. West Virginia officials have implemented Vista in seven … Continue reading →

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Epic Installation Fuels Maine Controversy

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Anne Zieger

Ordinarily, the fact that integrated delivery system MaineHealth had spent $150 million on an Epic EMR system wouldn’t excite a lot of comment.  After all, say what you like about Epic, it doesn’t come cheaply, and a $150 million install … Continue reading →

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Is Epic Stifling Health IT Innovation?

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Anne Zieger

In many ways and definitely based on the buzz, Epic is at the top of the hospital EMR market. According to one estimate, about 40 percent of the U.S. population has its medical information stored in an Epic EMR, a … Continue reading →

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EMRs Have Certifications Yanked

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Anne Zieger

A California EMR developer has become the first to have its certification for Meaningful Use taken away by the ONC. EHRMagic-Ambulatory and EHRMagic-Inpatient, both of which were developed by Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based EMRMagic, failed to meet certification requirements, reports EMR … Continue reading →

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Only Incentives Will Make EHR Interoperability Happen

Posted on April 26, 2013 by John

Today we had a really interesting #HITsm chat about interoperability, data hoarding, and sharing healthcare data. Tomorrow we’ll have a post on EMR and EHR that summarizes some of the key tweets from the chat. Although, there was one theme … Continue reading →

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ONC Proposes New EMR Vendor Fee

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Anne Zieger

It looks like federal budget balancing fervor could soon have an impact on EMR vendors (See also this post on EHR Incentive and Sequestration). As part of President Obama’s current budget proposal, the ONC is suggesting that health IT vendors … Continue reading →

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CommonWell Alliance Goals Challenged By ONC

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Anne Zieger

As virtually everyone in health IT knows, HIMSS saw the dawning of a new EMR vendor alliance which proposes to make health data exchange simpler.  The group, the CommonWell Alliance, includes McKesson, Cerner, Allscripts, Greenway and athenahealth, plus McKesson’s connectivity … Continue reading →

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EMR Vendors Need To Get Their Act Together

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Anne Zieger

For quite some time now, EMR vendors have gotten away with selling products that aren’t very usable and may even pose safety risks. But that’s the price enterprise EMR buyers have been willing to pay to jump in and automate. … Continue reading →

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