The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense have been working to launch Cerner's EHR system for both active duty and veteran members. 

SA Health, Australia's public healthcare system, is investigating whether patients have been harmed by an apparent bug in Microsoft's Remote Desktop software, which is duplicating the last digit of medication doses ordered in the Allscripts Sunrise EHR, Pulse IT reports. 

ONC is sunsetting its nationwide interoperability roadmap, the agency's action map for achieving widespread data sharing across the U.S. healthcare system.

Allscripts Developer Program, a health IT innovation initiative within the Chicago-based EHR vendor's business, launched a new program that aims to increase diversity across the health IT industry and expand resources for underrepresented entrepreneurs.

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.

Cerner reported $172.3 million in net earnings for the first quarter of 2021, up 17 percent from $147.2 million during the same period last year. 

Cerner CEO and Chair Brent Shafer will depart from his position, the Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR company said May 5. 

Forty-four healthcare providers including Hartford HealthCare and Yale New Haven Health have joined Connecticut's statewide health information exchange, which went live May 3, the CT Mirror reports.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a vendor to gather information on EHR design, data capabilities, delivery and acquisition planning, according to an April 29 contractor listing.

CareCloud, a Miami-based EHR and practice management software provider, has agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to drum up sales of its EHR products, the U.S. Department of Justice said April 30. 

Cleveland Clinic rolled out an automated donor referral EHR tool in its hospitals to improve the identification and evaluation of potential eye, organ and tissue donors, the health system announced April 30.

Epic experienced a power outage April 30 across its Verona, Wis.-based campus after an incident involving a raccoon shut down the nearby power station the EHR vendor uses, Channel 3000 reports.

The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Denis McDonough, visited Spokane, Wash.-based Mann-Grandstaff Medical Center after he heard concerns that the VA's Cerner EHR adoption was causing distress for veterans and hospital staff, according to an April 29 article by CBS affiliate Krem 2.

Allscripts posted $368 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2021, down 3 percent from the $381 million in revenue it reported during the first quarter of 2020. 

From new partnerships to finalizing its Kantar Health acquisition, here are eight updates on Cerner's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in April.  

From go-lives to industry insights from founder and CEO Judy Faulkner, here are seven updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in April.

Seattle Children's recently transitioned its Epic EHR system to the Virtustream healthcare cloud platform, according to an April 28 news release.

EHR usability issues are being associated with nurse burnout, which can lead to higher rates of surgical patient mortality and readmissions, according to a recent study published in the journal Medical Care. 

Researchers from New York City-based Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons developed an algorithm that automatically searches a patient's EHR to look for signs of kidney disease, an April 13 study published in npj Digital Medicine found.

Cerner will host the last second-dose event of its COVID-19 vaccination clinic at its Kansas City, Mo.-based campus on May 6, My Courier Tribune reports.