Epic Systems dominate the EHR vendor market as more healthcare organizations continue to invest in Epic EMR software solutions. Epic is one of the most extensively used software vendors in the United States, connecting 250 million patients. Missouri-based Mosaic Life Care, Harris Health, and Legacy Community Health have recently announced Epic electronic health records implementations [...]
Open-source EMR software systems act as a layout that allows users to build their own electronic records software. Practices can easily download the software source code and then customize it according to their practice needs and specifications to meet daily workflow requirements. Small practices and open-source software Potential buyers may need to get a license [...]
An ONC data brief has shown an increase in ePrescribing adoption for controlled substances. The use of electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) and prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) can support clinicians to make confident and informed care and treatment decisions. The USA is going through a drug overdose crisis, and using EPCS and PDMPs [...]
Mental health facility Palmetto Counseling and Consulting will begin an eClinicalWorks EMR system implementation. The mental health facility is switching its existing software solution to improve clinical workflows and enhance care coordination. The system-wide EHR software implementation will help to seamlessly connect healthcare providers through a unified system that integrates behavioral health solutions and medication [...]
Google Cloud and Epic EMR Software solution, the largest software vendor in the United States have collaborated to allow Epic hospital clients to run EHR systems on Google Cloud, this was unveiled on Monday at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas. This healthcare partnership will give healthcare providers more choices on the cloud, and new [...]
During the COVID pandemic, many practices had no choice but to switch to some form of virtual care. This forced the industry to explore a somewhat unknown technology since there were many questions, such as whether care could be given properly when not in the same room as the patient. It has since been reported [...]
Recently the world was impacted by an event that transformed everything. COVID has had permeating effects in almost all aspects of life, but none so more than the field in which it was unearthed: healthcare. The means through which we compensated have led to irreversible changes to EMR software around the world, forcing us to [...]
Healthcare technology has played a prominent role to help improve patient diagnosis and treatment. Proactive medical organizations should know the future of technology trends so they can be prepared to embrace them to stay competitive and offer high-quality patient care. The advent of digital solutions and healthcare tech has revolutionized the healthcare sector in numerous [...]
Researchers from the University of Florida (UF) are making use of the funding from the school to assist in resolving the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. $3.7 million in funding will be used to track coronavirus variants with the creation of an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. The COVID-19 pandemic All around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has [...]
VA Cerner Electronic Health Records (EHR) system went down for four hours mainly due to a patient database corruption issue according to a report from FedScoop. Cerner Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software outage was experienced on Thursday the 4th of August, affecting users across the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Coast Guard. The outage [...]