Another Instructive Hospital EMR Failure
Recently, I put out a call for people to share their stories of EMR failures. As readers know, vendors trumpet their customers’ successes, but stories about mistakes and outright failures are hard to...
View ArticleWill Cerner Let Mayo Clinic Move to Epic Easily?
As most regular readers know, we don’t try to get into the rat race of breaking news on things like EHR selection, the latest meaningful use, or whatever else might be time sensitive healthcare news....
View ArticleGE Phasing Out Centricity Enterprise, To Some Surprise
Conceding that its competitors have the upper hand, GE is phasing out its Centricity Enterprise product, informing the world in a #HIMSS15 announcement which has gotten little play from our tech media...
View ArticleGE Healthcare Is Still In The Game
Below is the recent press release from GE Healthcare. Their EMR will be used in the Rio 2016 Olympics which is a great win for GE. The product has come a long way and they are making some great...
View ArticleSome Interesting Thoughts from the EHR Summit
I enjoyed all day at the EHR Summit that’s being held by HBMA in Phoenix. It’s been a really interesting event for me. I had some sound bites from the Ron Sterling keynote queued up, but it’s not...
View ArticleEMR Jobs, Olympic EMR, EMR O/S, EHR Dictation, and EMR Purchasing
You can see we have a jam packed weekend Twitter round up. There were a lot of interesting topics being discussed this week in healthcare social media. As usual, we’ll do our best to provide some of...
View ArticleGE Healthcare Announces Centricity Practice Solution 11
New Ambulatory EMR Offering Simplifies ICD-10 Readiness with One-click Problem Entry and Mapping to ICD-9 Codes BARRINGTON, Ill. – Jan 24, 2013 – GE Healthcare today announced the release of...
View ArticleHospital Mergers Complicate EMR Transition
With reimbursements from both Medicare and private insurers falling, hospitals' margins are growing perilously thin, and the pace of hospital mergers is likely to increase.
View ArticleA Look at the Olympic EHR
I’ve always been interested in the United States Olympic Committee’s choice of GE as their EHR software. As part of the Olympics, GE put out this video where a bunch of the USOC support staff talk...
View ArticleHow Not to Handle EHR Certification Problems
Today I was thinking back on how differently EHR vendors have handled EHR Certification problems. First, take a look at the $155 million whistleblower lawsuit that eCW (eClinicalWorks) suffered thanks...
View Articleathenahealth Acquired by Hellman & Friedman and Bain Capital for $17 Billion
While most of us were getting ready for Thanksgiving, the big announcement this week was that athenahealth has changed hands from Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital to new owners Hellman &...
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