In a recent roundtable discussion focusing on challenges associated with implementing electronic health record systems, several hospital executives pointed to workflow issues as being the most difficult to overcome, Becker's Hospital Review reported. For instance, Jonathan Bauer, CIO at Somerset (P...

Electronic health record technology alone will not be sufficient to implement accountable care, according to a new report from IDC Health Insights. It has released a five-stage Accountable Care Maturity Model designed to help healthcare organizations gauge where they are in the process and make str...

The "next generation" of electronic health record systems need to make more than "incremental" changes and move beyond the concept of serving as computerized paper charts, according to a new study of leaders in the Department of Veterans Affairs, published in the Journal of the American Medical Info...

Technology projects such as the implementation of an electronic health record system, no doubt, come with their share of headaches. CIOs that think that such work merely consists of installing new software or hardware, however, are in for a rude awakening, according to Ilene Moore, a physician advis...

New Orleans, March 4, 2013 – Top healthcare information technology (HIT) companies Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway Medical Technologies® and RelayHealth announced today the launch of the CommonWell Health Alliance™, planned to be an independent not-for-profit organization t...

4 March 2013-Shearwater Healthcare Solutions, the business accelerator founded by Ian Denley and Markus Bolton, has made a major investment in Graphnet Health, the UK’s leading supplier of IT solutions for shared health and social care records. Graphnet’s CareCentric solutions are used by over ...

ETIAM, Cambridge, MA – March 1, 2013 – Heralded by the new promotional theme Direct to the Point-of-Care…Outside Images Seamlessly Delivered – ETIAM enhances its flagship ETIAM-Connect image sharing and management system with a range of timely new features at HIMSS 2013. Debuting at HIMSS i...

PLEASANTON, CA – (March 1, 2013) – PACSGEAR, the leading provider of imaging connectivity for electronic health records, today announced ModLink™, a software solution that transfers structured report measurements directly into PowerScribe 360 | Reporting from Nuance. Using DICOM Structured Rep...

CCube Solutions has been selected by the Aneurin Bevan Health Board to deliver a Trust-wide electronic document and records management system (EDRMS). The Health Board provides acute, community, mental and child health services to 639,000 people in South Wales, approximately 21% of the total Welsh p...

Northern Virginia Medical Society (MSNVA) has partnered with Enabledoc to provide a comprehensive EHR-PM solution for MSNVA members to make electronic health records and practice management affordable, allow physicians to manage their patient and business records, and strengthen the role of independ...