The Department of Veterans Affairs' removal of deputy secretary James Byrne, who oversaw VA's EHR modernization effort, earlier this week will not affect the project, according to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie, FedScoop reports.

University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System will integrate clinical workflow solutions from TransformativeMed with its EHR system, according to a Feb. 4 news release.

Cerner will sell a portion of its software products for about $248 million to CompuGroup Medical, a German healthcare software company, according to a Feb. 5 Kansas City Business Journal report.

Sixty U.S. health systems have signed Epic's letter opposing HHS' proposed interoperability rules, according to a Feb. 5 CNBC report.

Cerner reported a 6 percent increase in 2019 revenue, which hit $5.7 billion.

South Boston, Va.-based Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital, part of the Sentara Healthcare network, implemented an Epic EHR on Feb. 2, according to The Gazette Virginian.

Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto will implement Allscripts' cloud-based, mobile anesthesia information management system, according to a Feb. 5 news release.

Oklahoma University Medicine and its academic partner University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center signed a five-year, $200 million contract to install an Epic EHR, according to a Feb. 4 news release.

Cerner posted $5.7 billion in full-year revenue for 2019, up 6 percent from the previous year, according to the Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR vendor's Feb. 4 report.

More than a quarter of hospitals under 150 beds are in the process of assessing cloud-based replacement systems for their EHRs, according to a recent Black Book report.

Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, all in New York City, on Feb. 1 went live on a new Epic EHR system.

Jonathan Bush, executive chairman of Firefly Health, HHS Secretary Alex Azar and the American Medical Informatics Association are some of the latest health IT executives and organizations to publicly speak out about HHS' proposed interoperability rule.

Artificial intelligence tools built into the EHR may help health systems implement strategies such as targeted overbooking; however, the technology presents various layers of potential bias toward vulnerable patient populations, according to a Jan. 31 Health Affairs report.

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie on Feb. 3 fired James Byrne, the VA deputy secretary who oversaw the department's EHR modernization effort, FedScoop reports.

The major EHR providers all made big moves over the past few years as they continue to compete for market share, invest in new technology development and enter into strategic partnerships with health systems as well as big tech companies.

Here are 10 updates on Cerner's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in January.

Here are five updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in January.

Epic's recent campaign over privacy concerns against HHS' proposed interoperability rule is "indisputably cynical," said Jonathan Bush, executive chairman of Firefly Health, according to Politico's Jan. 31 Morning eHealth newsletter.

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health announced on Feb. 3 that it is both a founding member and the first health system to join the Cerner Learning Health Network, which aims to make de-identified clinical data more accessible for medical studies.

Epic and Meditech received the highest scores for acute care EMRs in large and community hospitals, respectively, according to KLAS Research's 2020 rankings.