Epic added telehealth technology company TytoCare's platform to its App Orchard.

While more physicians used patient health information from outside organizations in years 2015 and 2017, interoperability among office-based physicians did not improve during the same time frame, according to an ONC analysis.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare researchers designed a computer algorithm that integrates with patients' EHRs to help determine an individual's risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Orlando (Fla.) Health selected a 12-member team to lead its transition to a new Epic EHR, which the health system is calling a comprehensive health record.

David City, Neb.-based Butler County Health Care Center will install a Cerner EHR to move its records system to a single platform.

Here are key insights from nine recent studies on EHRs:

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers studied EHR data and developed an algorithm that identifies and assigns patients into four separate types of sepsis, according to a May 19 study published in JAMA.

The leading factor to predict EHR user satisfaction among clinicians is the quality of system training they received, according to a study published in Applied Clinical Informatics.

Boston Medical Center implemented an EHR-based tool that serves as a social determinants of health screener to identify patients' unmet needs, according to a study published in Medical Care.

The Department of Veteran Affairs' transition to a Cerner EHR may move more quickly than previously anticipated, FCW reports.

Phoenix Children's Hospital's on-premise virtual servers were inaccessible for hours May 16 due to an internet outage at the hospital, ABC affiliate KNXV reports.

DrChrono, an EHR, medical billing and practice management software developer, added a new feature that uses voice recognition technology to chart physicians' clinical notes in the EHR.

Despite the vast amount of medical data available today, researchers must recognize that EHR data can present various limitations and isn't always helpful in improving patient care, Google Research Scientist Kathryn Rough said during a presentation at DATAx San Francisco May 14-15, Innovation Enterprise reports.

Cerner launched its new near-site health network Anuva Health, which aims to combine in person and virtual care services for organizations to offer to their employees at lower costs.

Physicians experience various factors that negatively impact their EHR user experience and leave them spending more time on administrative tasks than direct patient care, according to an essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Most hospital executives and administrators believe the accuracy of patient matching when information is exchanged between organizations with different EHR systems is subpar, according to a recent Pew Charitable Trusts report.

The Physicians Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that supports physician workflow and patient care, is forming a fund dedicated to improving EHR interoperability and state health information exchanges.

Culbertson, Mont.-based Roosevelt Medical Center is transitioning to an athenahealth EHR, according to Roundupweb.

The federal Health IT Advisory Committee's Information Blocking Task Force advanced several recommendations May 13 to ONC's proposed interoperability rule, according to a Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

MDMetrix, a software startup from Seattle Children's Hospital, received $3 million in its latest financing round in support of its data analytics tool, which pulls patient information from EHRs for physician use, Geekwire reports.