Electronic Health Records News

Tech News: Feds name health IT certifiers; IBM seeks to crack China’s health sector
Federal health officials gave two firms — the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology in Chicago, Ill., and the Drummond Group in Austin, Texas, — the power to certify electronic medical record vendors effective immediately, The Hill reports. “As providers move toward mandatory adoption of EHR systems, HHS created an incentive program designed to encourage the transition …

Hospitals ill-prepared for move to electronic medical records, survey finds
Government requirements for hospitals to get cash rewards for the “meaningful use” of electronic medical records may be too stringent for many facilities, which lack the tech savvy to meet them, according to Mass Device, a New England-based medical device business newsletter. “A small fraction of U.S. hospitals reported using electronic medical records software last year and even fewer would …

Hospitals Ill-Prepared For Move To Electronic Medical Records, Survey Finds
Government requirements for hospitals to get cash rewards for the “meaningful use” of electronic medical records may be too stringent for many facilities, which lack the tech savvy to meet them, according to Mass Device, a New England-based medical device business newsletter. “A small fraction of U.S. hospitals reported using electronic medical records software last year and even fewer would …

Electronic health records: helpful, but we’ll still need to wait for them
For years now, people have expected electronic health records to be the next big thing in healthcare. Digitization is supposed save us time and money. It should speed up routine tasks, like booking appointments. It should help prevent duplication of work — stopping doctors from running tests that have already been run in another location, [...]

E-health funding enough for a prototype
THE $500 million committed by Labor for e-health records is not enough for a full national rollout.

KHN column: The new momentum behind electronic medical records
In this Kaiser Health News column, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius writes that in almost every other sector besides health, electronic information exchange is the way we do business.

Device Firms Skid As Health IT Looks To Bright Future
As companies look forward to a bright future in some areas of health technology–namely, electronic medical records–other parts of the med-tech industry are watching sales slip. Bloomberg: “UnitedHealth Group Inc., the biggest U.S. insurer, and McKesson Corp., the largest drug distributor, are vying for billions of dollars in added sales by bulking up their information-technology units …

VA Company Launching Electronic Health Records Program
A Virginia company is launching a program to help states with electronic health records.

Health records to be better-used
Manitoba Health wants to help clinics make better use of their Electronic Medical Records. Although about 30 per cent of clinics in Manitoba do keep electronic medical records, not all clinics are using those records to their full potential, said Dr.[...]

Electronic health records getting boost from state
Electronic health records are on the way, and rural counties such as Lenoir are getting a boost from state funding. The North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund created a system that will assist in the transition to electronic health records….