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Is an EHR backlash brewing?

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | February 19, 2013

#EHRbacklash was born as EHRs, vendors, and the meaningful use incentive program are under perhaps as much fire as they’ve faced yet. On Tuesday, in fact, Black Book Rankings managing partner Doug Brown essentially struck at all three by saying that “meaningful use incentives created an artificial market for dozens of immature EHR products,” a scenario that may trigger “the year of the great EHR switch,” in 2013. Read More »

Mirth Selected to Help Move Health Information Exchange Forward in Orange County, California

Press Release | Mirth Corporation, OCPHRIO | June 12, 2012

OCPRHIO, the Orange County Partnership Regional Healthcare Information Organization, today announced its selection of Mirth's full suite of information exchange solutions to improve access to healthcare information in Orange County. Today's action represents a major step forward by OCPRHIO, a community collaborative of healthcare providers, whose mission is to improve healthcare information exchange (HIE) throughout Orange County. Read More »

Nurses Not Included In Hospital EHR Planning

Greg Slabodkin | Health Data Management | October 20, 2014

Nurses are being left behind when it comes to planning and implementing electronic health records...The survey of nearly 14,000 U.S. nurses found that 98 percent of licensed RNs say that they have never been included in hospital technology decisions or design...

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Pending Upheaval In"The Year Of The Great EHR Switch" Shifts Spotlight To e-Health Industry's Best, Black Book Reveals 2013 Top Scoring Vendors

Press Release | PRWeb | March 4, 2013

With more electronic health record systems continuing to fall short of providers' expectations, a new report by Black Book Rankings suggests that 2013 may indeed be the "year of the great EHR vendor switch"... Read More »

Physicians aren’t connecting much to one another’s EHRs

Bob Cook | amednews | June 19, 2012

A report says few doctors are exchanging patient information electronically in any meaningful way, despite believing it’s important to have that capability. Read More »

The great EHR market shakeout

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | September 3, 2013

Based on Black Book’s and other firms’ research little doubt remains that many healthcare organizations are either planning to or are already in the process of switching EHR vendors. Read More »

The IT Haves And Have-Nots Of Healthcare Providers

Anthony Brino | Medical Practice Insider | November 4, 2014

A rift is cracking open between smaller health systems, the proverbial “have nots,” and large highly-capitalized hospital systems.  For those have nots, financial sustainability continues to be a struggle as IT costs pull more resources from other priorities, including investments in financial software, emerging patient care technologies and capital improvements, according to a new report from Black Book...

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Understanding Effect of EHR Usability on Clinical Workflows

Sara Heath | EHR Intelligence | August 26, 2016

As EHR use becomes ubiquitous in the healthcare industry, questions about EHR usability come into play. Read More »

Upsurge in Emergency Department Information Technology Replacements, 72% of Hospitals Dissatisfied With Interoperability & Usability Finds Black Book

Press Release | Black Book Market Research | October 28, 2015

Black Book surveyed 738 emergency department administrative and nursing managers, and 1,104 ED physicians (over half are members of the American College of Emergency Physicians). 89% of ED leaders believe their hospitals rushed to purchase new EHRs and ED systems between 2010 and 2013 for meaningful use dollars, just to see productivity fall, liability rise and connectivity stall. Read More »