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CMS Releases Proposed Rule to Advance Interoperability and the Exchange of Medical Record and Plan Information

The Proposed Rule would also require hospitals that have adopted electronic health records ... will result in hospital EHR systems having a baseline capability to generate messages that conform to com... read more

Helping Patients Stay Engaged in their Own Care

[READ: Hospital of Tomorrow: How the Industry is Facing the Future] Notably, the $27 billion federal incentive program for "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs ... within 30 days of hos... read more

Electronic health records may not improve outcomes in ischemic stroke patients

Electronic health records may ... health records to those that did not. They found that after controlling for patient and hospital characteristics, having an electronic health record was not associate... read more

Data blocking, standard APIs targeted in long-awaited EHR rules

CMS proposed a rule Monday to require Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance ... their compliance. Hospitals are not on board with a provision that would require them to send electronic notificatio... read more

How Keeping Psych Records Too Private Can Hurt Patient Care

Some of the most sensitive information in medicine involves mental health ... hospitals that both use electronic psychiatric records and allow them to be shared with other doctors have a 32% to 39% lo... read more

EHR Use Helps to Reduce Hospital Readmissions, Length of Stays

The health records detailed patient stays spanning 2010-2013. The dataset included discharge information ... requirements that mandate hospitals capture patient information systematically in an electr... read more

California EMS Agencies Work to Improve Exchange of Health Information with Hospitals

Even though many EMS agencies have adopted electronic patient care reporting (ePCRs) software, those systems use different data standards than the electronic health records (EHRs) used by hospitals .. ... read more

KenSci Gets $22M for Tools to Help Hospitals Flag High-Risk Patients

For those patients who do end up in the hospital, KenSci says it can predict which patients present the highest risk of readmission within 30 days of discharge ... including patients’ electronic healt... read more

Medicare fines 2,610 hospitals in third round of readmission penalties

Medicare is fining a record number of hospitals — 2,610 nationwide, including 28 in the St. Louis area — for having too many patients return within a month for additional treatments, federal records r... read more

Why Hospitals Need Better Data Science

Airlines are arguably more operationally complex, asset-intensive, and regulated than hospitals ... prevent discharge delays. Electronic health records or other internal systems often gather data on “ ... read more

Hackensack Meridian joins ranks of hospitals analyzing patients' return visits

This solves the problem of electronic health records ... follow-ups of patient data. Each day, data packets ping from the hospital and hit the central data warehouse for the coalition. Every night, th... read more

How Hospitals Are Changing

Hospitals are preparing for reimbursement changes by following up with patients. "Hospitals call patients after discharge to follow up on ... telehealth and integrated [electronic health records]." read more