Next-gen EHRs: Epic, Allscripts and others reveal future of electronic health records

The electronic health record is the lynchpin of healthcare information technology. And it has been evolving at a consistently quick pace in recent years.

Healthcare CIOs seeking to ensure they are making the best EHR investments today for the years ahead would do well to listen to experts in the field offering an insightful look ahead at the future of EHRs.

We checked in with Epic Systems President Carl Dvorak, Allscripts CEO Paul Black, an Accenture consultant and drchrono founder Daniel Kivatinos to get a sense of where big and smaller EHR vendors are headed.

Epic’s Dvorak singled out automation analytics, genomics-informed medicine, telemedicine...