Healthcare DIVE March 10, 2017
Meg Bryant

Dive Brief:

  • Electronic health record (EHR) companies are beginning to embrace open platforms and a more connected digital experience for their customers, Healthcare IT News reports.
  • In interviews at HIMSS17, top executives from Allscripts, Cerner and Epic revealed said they are offering application planning interfaces that facilitate interoperability, patient identification and more.
  • The move will allow third parties to create software and apps that can be accessed through their platforms.

Dive Insight:

The move to platform-as-a-service EHRs is relatively new for legacy companies and could open the door to more innovative features and capabilities in areas like population health and information exchange.

Allscripts CEO Paul Black said Allscripts has thousands of developers certified to create apps for its...

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