At 7 a.m. Saturday June 6, the new Oracle-powered federal electronic health records system will go live for the Veterans Affairs medical center in Dayton. The new system is also slated to go live ...

The VA's expanded health records system is part of a push to modernize care for 9 million veterans after delays and scrutiny.

Before logging on to the long-awaited electronic health record system, employees at the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical ...

Pivot Point Consulting, a Best in KLAS healthcare IT consulting leader, today announced the appointment of Elizabeth Kerch as ...

Introduction Data quality in electronic health records (EHRs) is central to data-informed healthcare. Health professionals play a key role in ensuring data quality yet the complexities of clinical ...

A recent survey found that more than 90% of accountable care organizations (ACOs) have multiple EHRs. This could present issues as ACOs adopt electronic quality measures. Objectives: To assess the ...

The Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office needs to improve its interagency coordination to address potential ...

Important mental health history is often present in medical records but hard to find, especially when it is missing from the ...

Shared inpatient-outpatient EHRs increased telemedicine and lab test follow-ups, reducing in-person visits for diabetes patients post-discharge. No significant change in 30-day ED visits or ...

The e-system had been due to go live in June but has been delayed due to safety concerns ...

Most hospitals and medical facilities have shifted from using paper medical records to electronic health records (EHR) to create, access and store patient information. For example, Epic Systems Corp. ...

In the last decade, the dark side of electronic health records (EHR) systems has received the most attention: how their complexity and time-consuming demands have added to physicians’ and nurses’ ...