Hard agree, and not just because I'm a spreadsheet nerd. Why are we all here? Isn't it in the service…
Morning Headlines 7/24/15
UMass Memorial’s medical records upgrade won’t be cheap
UMass Memorial Health Care (MA) announces that it will replace its Sorian EHR with Epic, with CEO Eric Dickinson commenting that it was “one of the most important contracts I have signed since becoming CEO.”
Clinical, Technical, Organizational and Financial Barriers to Interoperability Task Force
ONC launches its new Clinical, Technical, Organizational and Financial Barriers to Interoperability Task Force, which will develop a report on interoperability challenges by October 2015.
Cerner Announces Industry-First, EHR-Agnostic Tool to Improve Accuracy of Fall Risk Detection
Cerner releases a vendor-agnostic EHR tool that identifies fall-risk patients with a 90 degree accuracy.
NewYork-Presbyterian Medical Group will implement Athenahealth’s EHR, practice management, and patient portal solutions across all of its practices, servicing 800 physicians.
With all these $$$$ millions being spent on IT machines and devices, might the patients be getting short shrift? Just wondering.