EHR Implementation

Providers Laud Prior Authorization Rule, EHRs Can Lower Provider Burnout

January 25, 2024 - Providers were encouraged by the new CMS rule on prior authorizations, which holds payers to a higher standard on prior authorization denials, transparency, and timing. The new rule, which CMS approved on January 17, 2024, regulates the turnaround time for payers' prior authorization decisions. It also requires HL7 FHIR Prior Authorization API...


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VA May Cut Staff to Pay for EHR, FTC Sues to Block Amgen Horizon Mega Deal

by Hayden Schmidt

In policy news this week, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials were denounced by a sitting congresswoman for implying that facilities would have to cut staff in order to pay for budget...

VA Renegotiates EHR Contract, New Telehealth Bill for Medicare Beneficiaries

by Hayden Schmidt

In healthcare policy news this week, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) successfully renegotiated its EHR contract with Oracle Cerner. Meanwhile, new legislation may extend telemental health...

VA Deals with Another EHR Outage, CMS to Enforce Price Transparency Rules

by Hayden Schmidt

This week in policy news, politicians are preparing legislation to reign in the VA EHR modernization program while CMS gears up to fine hospitals that still haven’t complied with transparency...

SCOTUS Upholds FDA Mifepristone Approval, Congress Inspects COVID-19 Relief

by Hayden Schmidt

Policy news this week looks at the SCOTUS decision to protect abortion pills in the interim and the decision of the congressional oversight committee to investigate hospitals that may have misused...

VA EHR May Gain Biden Budget Boost as Congress Threatens Cuts

by Hayden Schmidt

In the news this week, continued turmoil for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) EHR project, and the FDA released several changes to its mammography regulations that hope to improve the breast...

VA EHR Project to Resume in 2023 Following Setbacks and Staff Layoffs

by Hayden Schmidt

Policy news this week includes updates on the Oracle Cerner Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) project and news about an emerging pro-Russian hacktivist group threatening the US healthcare...

EHR Costs Drain VA Budget, FDA Approval for ALS Treatment

by Hayden Schmidt

*This article has been updated to clarify the FDA's decision on Relyvrio* This week, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to struggle with its EHR implementation as the Oracle-Cerner...

VA EHR Slammed in OIG Report, Molina Pays $4.6M Data Breach Settlement

by Sara Heath

A recent Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report states that Cerner’s VA EHR project has generated patient safety issues and led to harm in more than one hundred instances. This is not the...

Cerner VA EHR Fails Uptime Obligation, Nurse Avoids Jail After Fatal Error

by Hayden Schmidt

Cerner’s endeavor to modernize the VA EHR system has experienced several speed bumps since its first site implementation in 2020. The most recent issues with the EHR program forced Cerner to...

IHS Announces Plans for EHR Modernization Project, Interoperability

by Sara Heath

Pinch-hitting for Kyle today as the Indian Health Services outlines its plans for an EHR modernization project it says will support interoperability in an advancing health IT landscape. The address...

New Healthcare Cybersecurity Bill, Federal Court Blocks Hospital Merger

by Hayden Schmidt

This week a federal appeals court made the decision to block a hospital merger in Bergen County, New Jersey, that was deemed anti-competitive and would have resulted in higher prices for...

VA EHR Project Scrutinized in New Report, Cybersecurity in the $1.5T Budget Bill

by Hayden Schmidt

A recent report from the Office of the Investigator General detailed multiple issues that the VA experienced in a pilot test of its new EHR software. The report found critical problems with the...

How to Develop a Successful Predictive Analytics Tool

by Kelsey Waddill

Tom Selva, chief medical information officer of University of Missouri Health Care, knows the power that predictive analytics have to transform the healthcare industry. Listen to the full podcast to...

How One Health System Customized Its Own EHR Enterprise Solution

by Kelsey Waddill

Healthcare systems and hospitals have a broad range of needs that may require a customized EHR enterprise solution, instead of a prepackaged EHR vendor solution. Jessica Cox, director of product...

EHR Vendors Say Virtual EHR Implementations to Last; Orgs Turn to Video Games for COVID Brain Fog

by Sara Heath

Just over a year after the first COVID-19 peak began, healthcare organizations are finally working out the technology best practices that got them through the pandemic and will carry them beyond it....

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