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e-Health 2025 Conference and Tradeshow
2025-06-01 - 2025-06-03    
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The 2025 e-Health Conference provides an exciting opportunity to hear from your peers and engage with MEDITECH.
HIMSS Europe
2025-06-10 - 2025-06-12    
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Transforming Healthcare in Paris From June 10-12, 2025, the HIMSS European Health Conference & Exhibition will convene in Paris to bring together Europe’s foremost health [...]
38th World Congress on  Pharmacology
2025-06-23 - 2025-06-24    
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
About the Conference Conference Series cordially invites participants from around the world to attend the 38th World Congress on Pharmacology, scheduled for June 23-24, 2025 [...]
2025 Clinical Informatics Symposium
2025-06-24 - 2025-06-25    
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Virtual Event June 24th - 25th Explore the agenda for MEDITECH's 2025 Clinical Informatics Symposium. Embrace the future of healthcare at MEDITECH’s 2025 Clinical Informatics [...]
International Healthcare Medical Device Exhibition
2025-06-25 - 2025-06-27    
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Japan Health will gather over 400 innovative healthcare companies from Japan and overseas, offering a unique opportunity to experience cutting-edge solutions and connect directly with [...]
Electronic Medical Records Boot Camp
2025-06-30 - 2025-07-01    
10:30 am - 5:30 pm
The Electronic Medical Records Boot Camp is a two-day intensive boot camp of seminars and hands-on analytical sessions to provide an overview of electronic health [...]
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10 Jun 25
France
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38th World Congress on  Pharmacology
23 Jun 25
Paris, France
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International Healthcare Medical Device Exhibition
25 Jun 25
Suminoe-Ku, Osaka 559-0034
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Glens Falls Hospital Picks Single EHR provider to Streamline Systems

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Glens Falls Hospital is transitioning to a single provider for electronic medical records to streamline data across the health care system, CEO Dianne Shugruesaid.

“When we streamline things, when we implement new medical record processes, when we make it more electronic, the processes will change, which will be better for safety, better for efficiency,” Shugrue said.

The health care system, which is the largest employer in Glens Falls and includes the biggest hospital between Albany and the Canadian border, will move to Cerner as its sole electronic health record system in August 2016.

Managing data about patients is becoming increasingly important in health care, with government incentives and a push toward leveraging information to improve care decisions. Health care systems are increasingly focused on achieving goals in population health, which focuses on the well-being of communities and requires effectively managing and analyzing data.

“Health care is just totally changing,” Shugrue said. “We’re challenged every day to say, what are we doing today that 20 years from now, 30 years now, somebody’s going to say, ‘I can’t believe we did it that way and didn’t hurt anybody along the way’? … And I think some of that is going to have to do with information. That is going to be huge in the health care industry. How do we get information flowing in the right places?”

Shugrue said the health system currently has multiple IT providers for different services, including Cerner for clinical inpatient services, GE Healthcare for patient registration and billing, and Epic for outpatients.

Shugrue said if a patient had a doctor’s visit at the office of an employed Glens Falls Hospital physician and went to the emergency department that night, the ER would not have immediate access to that earlier record because the physician would have used Epic and the ED uses Cerner.

“And that’s within the same system,” she said. “When people are moving within systems, within care, we’re talking about population health management — it’s going to be about information.”

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