A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that more than half of adolescent patient portal accounts with outbound messages were accessed by guardians.   The findings, say the researchers, could be…

To the surprise of no one, the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey, finds a major uptick in use of telehealth since before the pandemic: 70.3% of physicians polled say they work in practices that used videoconferencing to provide patient…

Podcast guest Dr. Davin Lundquist The EHR revolutionized medical record-keeping, but it also created burdensome workflows that create barriers to positive patient-doctor relationships, negatively impacting the experiences of both patients and physicians and even contributing heavily to clinician burnout. Augmedix…

Photo: Carolina Cape Fear Medical Group Carolina Cape Fear Medical Group, based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, had a problem: Clinicians lacked a full view of their patients' medical histories. THE PROBLEM The medical group is located near a military base,…

The Commons Project announced on Thursday that it had released a free COVID-19 vaccination verification app.   The SMART Health Card Verifier, available for download on iOS and Android devices, is aimed at allowing users to scan an individual’s SMART…

Three weeks after a cyberattack led to a network outage at Scripps Health, employees say some systems are coming back online. According to reporting from ABC News, several Scripps Health workers said they’d regained access to “read-only” medical records from…

The Department of Defense’s new electronic health record system, MHS Genesis, has been successfully delivered to 10,000 more clinicians and providers.    MHS Genesis was developed by the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health, comprising Cerner Corporation, Accenture, Leidos and Henry…

By April 2020, all Swiss hospitals should join a “stammgemeinschaft”, a regional community to offer a national EHR, the so-called EPD (electronic patient dossier) throughout Switzerland, according to the Federal Electronic Patient Dossier Act (EPDG). One year later, Healthcare IT News asks…