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To Drive Value, EHRs Need to Actually be Usable

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Khalid Al-Maskari, Founder and CEO of Health Information Management Systems (HiMS) EHRs are ubiquitous because they’re useful – but how useful are they really, and to whom? The truth is that an EHR by definition serves multiple masters, satisfying some more than others. The upshot?

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NextGen Healthcare Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo

Healthcare IT Today

a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Thoma Bravo , a leading software investment firm. NextGen Healthcare Shareholders to Receive $23.95 Per Share in Cash, a 46.4%

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How Hospitals Can Extract Value from EHR Analytics

Electronic Health Reporter

By Kathy Sucich, healthcare industry expert, Dimensional Insight According to a new survey fielded by Definitive Healthcare and sponsored by Dimensional Insight, 90% of hospitals and health systems use the analytics component of their electronic […].

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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

93% of physicians see advantages in digital health tools for patient care, split by 44% seeing “definite advantages” and 49% seeing “some advantage.” ” There was an 8-point growth in those seeing “definite advantages” since 2019. physicians and nurses as the pandemic emerged in early 2020.

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Google May Have Given Up On The EHR Market, But Definitely Not Health IT

Healthcare IT Today

Now, if one Google executive is to be believed, these giants may have finally concluded that at least where the EHR market is concerned, they have thrown in the towel. For quite some time, giant technology companies have struggled to get a foothold in the healthcare business, but with relatively little success. On the other […].

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Do Doctors Almost Universally Hate EHRs?

Healthcare IT Today

This is definitely something I’ve heard before this comment. Yes, that probably feels like a clickbait headline, but it was what one reader asserted in the comments of my article that Paper Is Contagious. You can check out the full comment here. In fact, I’ve heard it a lot.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Let's talk about EHRs a little bit. The two major vendors in the EHR space, I'm a client of, and so we're actually going through projects with both of them in modernizing and optimizing their footprints. Definitely pharmacogenomics will filter down and become the standard of care. How can they do better?

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