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More docs gravitating to cloud-based EHRs

Physician practices are turning to Software as a Service (SaaS) electronic health record systems--and have several good options to choose from, according to a new report from Orem, Utah-based healthcare research firm KLAS. The study, in which more than 290 providers using SaaS ambulatory EHR systems were interviewed, reported that SaaS EHRs are becoming increasingly popular.

RSNA image sharing project gives patients control of images

Five prominent academic medical centers across the U.S. announced they've launched a program that allows patients to move radiological images from a cloud-based server to their personal health

Following in hospitals' footsteps, HIEs adopt cloud-based imaging

Following the example of numerous hospitals across the country, HEALTHeLINK, a regional health information exchange (HIE) in western New York, has adopted a cloud-based image storage and exchange

Cloud-based EHRs could make the revolutionary feel evolutionary

"Perceptions of unaffordability and innovation limitations among electronic health record (EHR) platforms and systems available to independent and small group practices are among the greatest

How cloud-based EHRs make the revolutionary feel evolutionary

Special contribution by Richard Upton The list of challenges faced by independent physicians is growing longer by the day. The intrusive confusion over the adoption of clinical and business process

Merge network to enable online medical image sharing

Merge Healthcare, a provider of enterprise imaging and interoperability solutions, has announced its plan to launch a free, cloud-based network for sharing medical images among providers. The

VA cloud pilot could impact 134K medical workers

Privacy and communications issues surround planned pilot testing of cloud-based tools by the Department of Veterans Affairs that could impact as many as 134,000 VA medical workers. Specifically, the

athenahealth's Jonathan Bush: Washington needs to think less

athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush is never one to mince words, especially when it comes to his love--or lack thereof--for software based systems, as well as the government's efforts to oversee (or as he

Cloud-based efforts 'front-and-center' in healthcare

Earlier this month, AT&T announced it was partnering with Minnesota-based medical imaging software solutions provider Acuo Technologies in an effort to develop vendor-neutral, cloud-based medical

VA's cloud-based calendar potentially exposed 878 patients' info

Veterans' health records may have been compromised after clinicians at a Chicago facility used cloud-based software hosted by Yahoo.com to maintain a calendar of patients without proper