Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed by Congress in 1996. The purpose of this act was to secure personal health information of the patients. At that point in time, the medical records and prescriptions were either printed or they were written on a piece of paper and then kept in the filing [...]
With hundreds of EMR Software vendors today, all competing with each other and claiming to be the ultimate EMR system for the medical provider, “the perfect EMR” is a subjective term, to say the least, where some would argue that such an Electronic Medical Records software simply cannot exist. The truth is however [...]
Healthcare Intelligence Market recently released a report on Neurology EMR Software Market. The report forecasted global trends, a detailed growth analysis and overall market share of the specialty Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software in the coming years. […]
According to a recent report by Zacks, Massachusetts based leading Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software Company Athenahealth, Inc. or ATHN has surpassed all the estimations in the last four quarters. For the ongoing quarter in 2018, the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) […]
According to a recent press release by SBWire, the size of the Global Electronic Health Records (EHR) Software market will rise significantly by the year 2025, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) during the forecast period. This report reflects the year 2017 as the base year and the years 2018 […]
Electronic Medical Records Software (EMR Software) has replaced traditional paper charts across the US but the conversion process has not been easy for the medical providers or even their patients. A white paper from Standford Medicine provides a roadmap for the future of Electronic Health Records Software (EHR Software). The map indicates an artificially intelligent [...]
Cerner and Lumeris sign a 10-year deal to launch a new EHR-agnostic tool aimed to improve physician-patient encounters and population health. The EHR giant and the care managed services operator Lumeris signed a decade-long partnership deal to streamline healthcare data exchange, reimbursement cycles via a new health IT product. […]
Missouri-based EHR vendor Cerner will pay $4.5M to settle a three year long class-action lawsuit regarding overtime wages. The EHR giant allegedly misclassified some employees and did not pay them overtime salaries. The employees charged Cerner that the company has not been paying the overtime pays. […]
On Wednesday morning, Athenahealth announced that company’s Co-founder and CEO, Jonathan Bush is going to leave the company and now the board is going to consider “strategic alternatives.” Jonathan Bush resigned as a result of the sexual harassment and domestic abuse charges surface amid almost $7 billion bid by Elliot. […]
The behavioral health information technology act is now headed to the house, where there is already a similar bipartisan legislation. Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday, which allows the Medicare and Medicaid centers to offer incentives for behavioral health providers who use EHRs. […]