article thumbnail

Supplementing Your EHR To Improve Patient Care and Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

As of 2017, nearly nine in 10 office-based physicians had implemented an electronic health record (EHR). Despite widespread adoption, a 2018 Quest Diagnostics survey was among the first to cast doubt on overall usefulness of “basic” EHRs. By Tom Romeo, general manager of healthcare IT, Quanum Solutions, Quest Diagnostics.

EHR 111
article thumbnail

72,000 overdose deaths in 2017

Medical Mime - EHR

That is almost 200 people dying every day in 2017. 2017: 72,287 (+11.3%) – estimate. Wherever addiction treatment is administered, we here at MedicalMime are happy to support those forms of treatment through our EHR (rehab) specifically designed for addiction treatment. 2015: 52,404 (+11.4%). 2016: 63,632 (+21.4%).

EHR 40
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

UPMC CMIO talks telehealth's new normal, EHR workflow, pharmacogenomics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS21 earlier this month, Dr. Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond.

EHR 186
article thumbnail

Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

article thumbnail

On California’s Big Sur Island, the Cloud Proves Critical to Patient Care

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The disastrous winter of 2016 to 2017 made Big Sur Health Center leaders appreciate just how important having a cloud-based EHR was

EHR 145
article thumbnail

IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

The IoB ecosystem includes the technologies that are part of the health care Internet of Things, as well as EHRs, robotic surgery systems, and smart ventilators which also generate data about peoples’ health and wellness. These can cover us head-to-toe, inside and outside as the drawing from RAND’s report on IoB illustrates.

article thumbnail

Feds Demand Additional Compliance Efforts from eClinicalWorks (eCW)

Healthcare IT Today

Back in mid-2017, EHR maker eClinicalWorks agreed to pay $155 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit accusing it of a broad list of violations. In addition to paying the fine, eCW was required to sign a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) essentially requiring the vendor to keep its nose clean on several levels.

EHR 91