Morning Headlines 3/25/13
Allscripts statement regarding the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Allscripts drops its lawsuit against HHS and Epic. Filing the lawsuit in the first place was a questionable strategic decision and won the EHR vendor HIStalk’s "Stupidest Vendor Move" earlier this year.
Nearly 200 Former Customers of Allscripts MyWay Are Currently Live on Aprima EHR and PM
Aprima announces that it has converted nearly 200 Allscripts MyWay customers to its product in the six months since Allscripts announced it would not develop the MyWay enhancements required to comply with Meaningful Use and ICD-10.
Switch to e-records causing pain for Ontario doctors
Clinicians in Ontario are pushing back against EHR implementations that are resulting in familiar end user complaints: slow system response, poor usability, and substandard interoperability.
Olympic Medical Center to hire extra staff for electronic records launch
Olympic Medical Center will spend $850,000 to hire three dozen travel nurses to support their $1.8 million Epic install. The nurses will train end users as the hospital leads up to its May 4 go-live.
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