EHR adoption continues to increase with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT revealing that 76 percent of non-federal acute care hospitals in 2014 adopted at least a basic EHR system with clinician notes—a 27 percent increase from 2013.

EHR data can be for childhood obesity interventions, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. 

CPSI, EHR systems and services provider, has formed Evident, a wholly owned subsidiary that will provide EHR solutions previously sold under the CPSI name as well as an expanded range of offerings targeted specifically at rural and community healthcare organizations.

Kaiser Permanente has announced plans to open a new IT campus in Atlanta that create approximately 900 new IT jobs by 2019. 

CHICAGO--athenahealth’s Jonathan Bush had some harsh words for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Meaningful Use and interoperability when speaking to Clinical Innovation + Technology during the 2015 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition.

CHICAGO—A panel of leaders from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT shared their recent accomplishments and future plans while diplomatically fielding questions about criticisms of the just-released Meaningful Use Stage 3 proposed rule.

Most U.S. doctors are more proficient using EMRs than they were two years ago, but fewer believe that EMRs have improved treatment decisions, reduced medical errors or improved health outcomes.

Almost all (95 percent) of physicians surveyed have experienced a delay or difficulty delivering medical care because patients' medical records were not accessible to them. Those are the findings of a survey conducted by athenahealth of nearly 3,000 who use the Epocrates medical reference app.