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Invest in a single national electronic health record for primary care ...

Canada should invest in a single national electronic health record for primary care to improve the health of Canadians, argues an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). read more

Benefits of Electronic Health Record Integration of Opioid Monitoring ...

Adding prompts and tools to electronic health record systems can help providers monitor for appropriate opioid usage. read more

Incorporating Contraceptive Care Data Elements Into Electronic Health ...

The federal government, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in particular, has the power to ensure that their electronic health record and ... read more

Health First launches Epic Electronic Health Record platform, with $100 million investment

Health First launched a new electronic health record platform, Epic, to modernize patient care and information access ... streamline the patient and provider experience, and provide national ... read more

New national electronic patient health record system proposed

A new national electronic patient health record system for Ireland has been proposed at an International Digital Health conference in Maynooth University. read more

UF Health St. Johns using new health-record system called Epic

UF Health St. Johns launched a new electronic health record system, Epic, across its hospital and outpatient locations. The system aims to improve care coordination, patient safety, and ... read more

Re-Envisioning Electronic Health Records to Optimize Patient-Centered ...

The National Cancer Policy Forum convened a 2022 workshop, “Innovations in Electronic Health Records for Oncology Care, Research and Surveillance,” to address these challenges and to facilitate ... read more

SG to mandate all private hospitals to share patient data with NEHR - MSN

Singapore's Health Minister Ong Ye Kung introduced the Health Information Bill, which will require all healthcare providers to share essential patient data with the National Electronic Health ... read more

Why Newt Gingrich Believes National Health Records Are Coming Soon - CRN

Perhaps Gingrich was preaching to the choir when addressing thousands of CIOs at the largest IT health-care conventions of the year, but he gave three reasons why he believes electronic health ... read more

Electronic Health Record System Unveiled at VA and Pentagon's Largest ...

VA officials said the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago, which serves more than 75,000 patients per year, adopted the Oracle Cerner electronic health record ... read more

Cost of VA's new electronic health record system could triple to more ...

One report found the electronic health record system sent medical care orders — such as psychiatric consults — to an undetectable location, which caused harm for 149 VA patients. read more