One might assume that by this point, virtually every provider with a shred of IT in place is doing some form of patient data exchange. After all, many studies...
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Normally, when I read the news of a vendor partnership, it’s a major snoozefest. After all, marketing deals and customer wins may be important to the...
In theory, after they get through their growing pains, hospitals should be able to leverage EMRs and new billing systems to improve their financial condition...
Surprise, surprise. A new report from the Premier healthcare alliance finds that many hospital executives will make their largest capital investments in IT...
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...
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...
Here’s a story of what can happen when a hospital starts out from scratch with the latest in EMR knowledge, rather than having to integrate its system...
A new report from KLAS seems to confirm what we all know already — that buying an EMR is a tricky business that can easily end in failure. The new KLAS...
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has announced plans to spend $100 million over five years to create a massive data warehouse, a move which puts it...
Usually, battles over a hospital EMR contract fall below the radar, with only the hospital and vendors the wiser as to what took place during negotiations. But...