Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT and eHealth news for the week ending December 10:
Four hospitals piloting OurNotes initiative in 2018
Healthcare Informatics ~ Heather Landl ~ 07/12/2017
Beginning in January, four academic hospitals – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, University of Washington in Seattle, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire and University of Colorado in Boulder – will begin piloting a new digital tool called OurNotes that enables patients to contribute to their clinical notes.
Allscripts CEO Paul Black claims the EHR vendor will pull ahead of the pack in 2018
Healthcare IT News ~ Mike Miliard ~ 07/12/2017
After just hitting an interoperability milestone, and fresh off the acquisition of former rival McKesson’s health IT business, its chief executive says the vendor plans to capitalize on its larger size and scale.
