Nearly 90% of health IT leaders surveyed say vendor consolidation is crucial to their interoperability strategy, while less than one-fifth currently have the technology required to provide it SAN ...

Precision medicine, care coordination programs, and value-based payment models continue to disrupt and transform traditional healthcare markets for consumers, providers, health plans, and digital ...

While emergency departments are reporting an upswing in the number of patients coming in, ED managers and physicians say some of the complications and obstacles stem from information systems’ poor ...

A KLAS report released this week took a deep dive into how healthcare organizations perceive their electronic health record vendors' role in helping them to achieve meaningful interoperability. While ...

Thirty minutes. That's about how long it took me to find the record of a patient's kidney biopsy, completed at another hospital, in their electronic health record (EHR). How did I find it? Short ...

A skilled nursing facility could spend lavishly on an electronic health record system, but without the ability for hospital discharge planners to download medication records, physicians to upload care ...

New market intelligence identifies country-specific demand for modular hospital platforms, ambulatory cloud EHR, population health interoperability, smart-hospital analytics, imaging workflow AI, and ...

Although EHR solutions have been in the spotlight for over a decade, they are still riddled with some persistent interoperability issues. The importance of EHR interoperability has skyrocketed during ...

While healthcare organizations’ perceptions of their EHR vendors’ interoperability initiatives have gotten more positive, there is still room for improvements and more support, according to KLAS ...

A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that sites that use the same electronic health record vendor are generally more interoperable than the ...

Time is running out for vendors to submit bids on the planned $11 billion, 10-year contract to deliver an electronic health records system to the Defense Department. The DOD Healthcare Management ...

As the Department of Veterans Affairs approaches the launch of its new electronic health record program, lawmakers continue to worry about the future rollout of the program and its interoperability ...