Electronic Health Records (EHRs) news from FierceHealthIT

Hoping to ease a looming shortage of emergency department physicians, a group of Maryland hospitals are setting up a Delaware based eICU to oversee critical care overnight. The hospitals will become Read more...

With some core data already defined, it's looking like the pace of health IT standards development is likely to pick up. According to John Halamka, chairman of the Healthcare Information Technology Read more...

Do you know the difference between an e-medical record and an e-health record? Health IT professionals are banking on an answer of "no," which is why there now is more of a push to give more "precise Read more...

The state of Minnesota is offering a total of more than $2.3 million in state loans to help a pair of hospitals complete their EMR rollout. Swift County-Benson Hospital and Mille Lacs Health System Read more...

The state of Minnesota is offering a total of more than $2.3 million in state loans to help a pair of hospitals complete their EMR rollout. Swift County-Benson Hospital and Mille Lacs Health System Read more...

> A group of Maine health care providers have raised $4 million to begin building a statewide electronic health record system. Read more...

Here at FierceHealthIT, I use the term "EMR" rather than "EHR" to describe electronic records, as I believe the word "health" in the latter is unnecessarily vague. But that's just one editor's Read more...

Like their federal counterparts, Louisiana officials are looking for ways to subsidize adoption of EMRs by physicians. The state is low-tech even by pre-EMR standards--in fact, prior to the 2005 hurricane season, nearly 20 percent of physicians in Louisiana didn't have computers in their offices. After Katrina hit, HHS gave the state a $3.7 million grant to develop a RHIO prototype tying …

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Despite pressure from a broad range of health industry stakeholders, the pace of health IT investment-including EMR adoption-may be slowing down for a bit, according to some industry observers. Industry leaders are "exhausted," and "[running] out of adrenaline," says Scott Wallace, president and chief executive officer of the National Alliance for Health IT.  Efforts are stumbling, in part, because IT execs don't have enough successes to look at as models, Scott and others suggest. …

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While it might not have a direct effect on your strategy, getting consumer support for your health data exchange plans can't hurt. So you'll be happy to hear that according to a new study, consumers like the idea of secure health data sharing, particularly when they're educated about the details of how it works and why it's beneficial. The study, released by the eHealth Initiative Foundation, concluded that 70 percent of consumers favored the HIE concept. It also found that consumers need …

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