A new survey suggests that despite spending countless dollars and people-hours on the problem, hospitals and health systems are still struggling with data...
Hospital HIE
A new study appearing in Health Affairs concludes that health data exchanges between hospitals and other healthcare providers have climbed 41 percent between...
In an all-too-familiar tale of conflict, turf wars and financial doubts, a three-year effort to bring some of the Chicago area’s largest hospitals into...
Right now, the bulk of well-known vendors are fighting for hospital and multispecialty/primary care group business. But specialist EMRs are a thriving market...
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury 2011 EMR assumptions, not to praise them. Here’s some of the critical problems we...
This week, I caught a news update noting that Evansville, IN-based Deaconess Health System had just gotten the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 EMR adoption award...
For quite some time — I’d estimate five years at least — health information exchanges were the dark horse of the health IT world. A few...