The federal government finalized two rules that address interoperability between disparate electronic health records and information blocking—the practice of interfering with ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on February 21 issued a strategy to reduce the documentation and regulatory reporting requirements on providers related ...
In response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, athenahealth has added new guidance, diagnostic testing orders and screening questions to its network-based electronic medical record...
ECRI Institute’s multi-stakeholder collaborative, the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, has announced new research on reducing errors related to diagnostic testing and...
A team of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has developed a software-based method of scanning electronic health records (EHRs) to estimate the risk that a healthy...
A major survey of medical record keeping in the NHS has revealed critical deficiencies that could risk patients’ safety.Researchers at the Institute of Global Health Innovation...
It was long believed the FMR1 premutation—an excessive number of trinucleotide repeats in the FMR1 gene—had no direct effect on the people who carry it. Until recently, the only...
Researchers who analyzed data in the electronic health records (EHR) of children seen by hematology/oncology specialists at three large medical centers have developed an algorithm...
Like virtually every other entity in healthcare today, laboratories need to stay engaged and connected with the two groups of people most important to them: their referring physicians...
The future of healthcare will put patient health outcomes at the center of reimbursement—a concept that is commonly known as value for service. Even as far back as 2009, Michael...
