The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense are gearing up to test their single, interoperable Cerner EHR system for the first time since the agencies began working on the program six years ago, according to a June 10 Nextgov report. 

Richard Stone, MD, who serves as the acting undersecretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration, is set to step down in mid-July, according to a June 10 report by FedScoop.

Below is a list of healthcare providers that announced plans to implement a new EHR or deployed a new system in 2021. 

Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner is eliminating 500 positions across its global workforce, according to a June 10 Kansas City Star report. 

Meditech, Athenahealth and DrChrono are joining Cerner in supporting Apple's new health data-sharing feature.

HHS will publish a timeline in the next few months to outline steps in its national interoperability framework for sharing electronic health information, according to a June 8 FedScoop report. 

The Biden administration is recommending $2.7 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs' EHR modernization program with Cerner for the upcoming fiscal year, according to a June 8 report by Federal News Network.

Epic, Cerner, Allscripts and Meditech are four of the largest EHR vendors in the industry, making up a combined 77 percent of the overall market share. 

Cerner is teaming up with Apple in support of the tech giant's new health data sharing feature slated to become available this fall, according to a June 8 news release. 

Many clinicians cite EHRs as a source of burnout but don't have much control over which tools they can use and how they are designed, according to a June 8 article by the American Medical Association.

Backed by the support of smaller hospitals and its scalable clinical systems, Cerner has secured a quarter of the overall U.S. hospital EHR market share, according to KLAS Research.

Epic delivers a fully integrated product suite and the most adopted patient information interoperability tech to hospitals, but many organizations may see the Verona, Wis.-based EHR vendor's significant upfront cost as a barrier, according to KLAS Research. 

Apple on June 7 announced a slew of new health features for its iPhone, Apple Watch and Health Records app, including the ability to share health information with loved ones or a provider. 

Boxes containing hundreds of Hope Medical patients' health records were found scattered along the side of a road about 30 miles from the Stone Mountain, Ga.-based medical group's practice, according to a June 4 WSB-TV report. 

As health data breaches steadily increase, hospitals and health systems are equipping their EHR systems with patient privacy monitoring tools to promote safe access to medical records. 

Eleanor Slater Hospital, a state-run psychiatric hospital in Cranston, R.I., is pointing to outdated patient records, some older than a decade, as one of the driving factors behind discharge challenges it has been experiencing, according to a June 3 Providence Journal report. 

Cerner plans to launch a new hybrid work model this fall that will let employees choose between working at the Kansas City, Mo.-based company's headquarters or from a remote location, The Kansas City Star reports. 

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to ONC data.

While 90 percent of hospitals have the certified EHR technology patients need to view, download and transmit their health information electronically, only 3 out of every 4 hospitals have enabled the tech function, according to a June ONC data brief. 

The Office of the National Health Coordinator for Health IT received $80 million to initiate or expand training, certification and degree programs in public health informatics and data science at minority-serving institutions, the agency said June 1.