Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2023

News In a blog post, ONC highlighted trends in patient access to electronic health information. Nearly all (97%) hospitals and roughly almost two-thirds (65%) of physician practices are now capable of enabling patient access. Though this is a significant increase from 2012, numbers haven’t budged much since 2015.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 23, 2024

The three trusts that form the Acute Hospital Alliance are to implement a new shared electronic patient record (EPR), which will go live in 2026.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 11, 2019

[link] Gematik (the Society for Telematics Applications) recently published the specifications, approval procedures and field test concepts for the components and services for a German electronic patient record. "The gematik designed electronic patient file is intended to improve and facilitate care.

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DigitalHealth

MARCH 11, 2024

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has selected Epic as its preferred supplier for an Electronic Patient Record system.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” Patients, their care partners, caregivers, and advocates are already utilizing AI powered tools and creating their own LLMs in ways that the average physician, healthcare executive, and health IT vendors would not believe. But how to bake in “patient-first-ness?”

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DigitalHealth

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Results from the Digital Maturity Assessment have shown that only 10-30% of the 90% of NHS trusts with an electronic patient record have key functionality.

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DigitalHealth

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (NGH) has announced that Nervecentre is the preferred supplier for its new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system.

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NiftyHMS

MAY 21, 2024

Healthcare software is changing how hospitals care for patients and manage their operations. These tools simplify Appointment scheduling, record-keeping, billing, and checkup reminders. They organize patient data, streamline workflows, and improve care.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Strategic Client Services at HCTec Gone are the days when patients or couriers physically transported copies of patient records from their primary care physician’s office, lab or imagining center to a specialist.

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DigitalHealth

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An audit report released by auditor general Lynn Pamment has raised issues surrounding the implementation of Jersey’s electronic patient record (EPR).

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 26, 2021

Since January 2021, all 72 million statutorily insured German citizens have been legally entitled to a national electronic patient record (ePA).

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DigitalHealth

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT is preparing for the long-awaited go live of its new £450 million Epic electronic patient record (EPR) on Thursday 5 October.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 17, 2018

The NHS’s biggest hospital trust has signalled its intention to spend up to £400m on an electronic patient record system, in one of the biggest tenders of its kind. Commenting on the level of funding allocated to the patient system, a spokesperson for MFT said it was now the largest trust in the UK.

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DigitalHealth

JANUARY 12, 2024

Digital Health Intelligence released its latest electronic patient record (EPR) contract wins and migrations snapshot report on Thursday.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 23, 2024

Yonsei University Health System (YUHS) is taking a groundbreaking step in expanding access to medical care by incorporating digital therapeutic devices (DTx) into patients’ daily lives. Somzz provides cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-1), a standard treatment for chronic insomnia patients.

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DigitalHealth

OCTOBER 5, 2023

A new electronic patient record powered by Epic has officially launched across Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts today.

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DigitalHealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Epic as preferred supplier in their procurement for an Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

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DigitalHealth

APRIL 16, 2024

A £10m contract has been awarded to Insight Direct by Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for an electronic patient record system.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. For personal health records, this may be possible.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points : Consider just the line item of “customer and patient services,” and one of all of our least-favorite patient experiences: the dreaded call center. This last graphic from the McKinsey report illustrates the pain points for patients engaging with payers’ call centers.

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DigitalHealth

JANUARY 9, 2024

Inform Health has delivered a new patient health record and electronic patient record to Devon Sexual Health Services, giving patients more autonomy.

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DigitalHealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Newcastle Hospitals said it is reviewing documents from its electronic records after being notified that some patient letters may never have been sent.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 13, 2024

ORLANDO — A year ago, at HIMSS23 in Las Vegas, Epic announced it was working with Microsoft to integrate large language model tools and AI into its electronic health record software. | Epic clinician and vice president of clinical informatics.

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DigitalHealth

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the Access Rio electronic patient record (EPR) in just eight weeks.

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KevinMD

MAY 14, 2019

Just the other day, while I was in the middle of seeing a morning schedule full of patients, I opened one patient's chart and was thrilled to see a whole bunch of new icons in Chart Review in the electronic health record that I had never seen before. These apparently indicate office visits and other […].

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Technology often produces unintended consequences, and that’s certainly true of the electronic health record (EHR) systems used in hospitals and medical practices. In general, federal regulations do not require EHR developers and users to conduct robust testing to detect usability flaws that can threaten patient safety.

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KevinMD

JULY 1, 2019

The introduction of electronic health records (EHRs) was accompanied by a great deal of fanfare. Such systems, which replace old paper-based charts in doctor’s offices and hospitals, were designed to make patient data more accurate, safer and more accessible.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 15, 2020

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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DigitalHealth

MARCH 28, 2024

As healthcare evolves, so too must the electronic patient records at its heart. This means addressing barriers to progress - including the concerns of users, writes InterSystems' Mike Fuller.

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DigitalHealth

MARCH 18, 2024

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust have signed a contract for an electronic patient record with supplier Epic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2024

Days with both telehealth and in-person care correlated with increased EHR, documentation, and medical record review time. more medical record review minutes. Telemedicine requires shifting care delivery workflows, as it rarely includes clinical support staff but can involve levels of patient complexity similar to in-person visits.

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KevinMD

JULY 16, 2019

Topping the latest list: insurance paperwork, followed closely by electronic health records (EHRs). Insurers and EHRs get between doctors and their patients. Each year, Medical Economics surveys physician readers to find out what irks them most. The reason is the same for both. Doctors sit behind a screen, focused […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Harris Data Integrity Solutions has responded to growing demand for faster and more affordable duplicate record cleanup with the launch of its latest innovation, Intelligent MPI Triage Solution. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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DigitalHealth

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Norfolk and Waveney Acute Hospital Collaborative has selected MEDITECH as the supplier for their new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system.

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DigitalHealth

JANUARY 25, 2024

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has signed a contract with Epic to provide the Trust’s future electronic patient record solution

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DigitalHealth

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

UK electronic patient record provider Nervecentre has unveiled a new patient app, Patientcentre.

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DigitalHealth

JUNE 19, 2023

A new electronic patient record has now gone-live at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, improving patient care and communication.

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