The project implementor says costs have increased since the initial business case was introduced during the pandemic in 2021.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital employees continue to deal with problems with the agency’s new Oracle Health EHR ahead of a big expansion of the system, The Washington Post reported Dec 3 ...

Health systems project big returns from Epic EHR investments through application consolidation, efficiency gains, and reduced administrative burden.

Kaiser has put the finishing touches on a major phase of its costly, high-profile EMR project, giving all of its 8.7 million enrollees and 13,000 physicians access to its outpatient system. To date, ...

The Argonaut Project that launched last week offers a real chance at much-needed workable EHR standards. But by itself, Argonaut won't lead to interoperability nirvana. In Greek mythology, the ...

In the Catholic Church it is the confessional booth. In the Twelve Step program it is the 9th step, “making amends”. I guess there are a lot of ways to apologize and ask for forgiveness. Maybe it is ...

Applying traditional project management methodologies to an ambulatory EHR implementation often yields unexpected and often unpleasant results. Why? Lessons learned in Project Management Professional ...

Since March, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has seen a lot of leadership turnover: 40 senior staffers by the Democrats count in May. The agency lost two more in late summer, with the ...

These findings provided directional goalposts for EMR project leaders. The data from this pilot survey influenced the design process in several ways. Nursing staff from each unit were invited to ...

Practices aren’t always successful with electronic medical record (EMR) implementation. Some have even abandoned attempts to implement an EMR system, reverting back to the old way of doing things—a ...

No one denies that the Defense Department’s path toward an interoperable electronic health records system has been filled with potholes, least of all Christopher Miller, program executive officer of ...