Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System is switching its EHR vendor from Oracle Cerner to Epic.

Epic added two new software solutions to Garden Plot, its software service geared toward independent medical groups with 40 or more providers. 

Video surveillance company Hanwha Techwin has integrated its internet protocol cameras with E-Cal, EHR giant Epic’s remote video sitting platform.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is working with Oracle Cerner to conduct investigations into a flaw with the EHR system that caused thousands of orders for specialty care, lab work and other services, and claims to an undisclosed location, FedScoop reported Sept. 28

Brightwork Health IT is launching Sparc Academy as an electronic learning tool for health organizations to train their employees on EHRs.

Fort Sill, Okla.-based Reynolds Army Health Clinic is now 100 percent live with EHR system MHS Genesis, according to Sept. 27 reporting from the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service.

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Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger, Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center, Boston-based Tufts Medicine, Epic and Oracle Cerner are among the participants in a project to screen for and share patient data on social determinants of health in EHRs, the White House said Sept. 28.

Epic is working to develop a new software application that aims to help physicians treat patients with rare diseases, WisBusiness reported Sept. 28. 

College and university health EHR software company Medicat is naming Adam Cole as its new CEO.

Brockport, N.Y.-based Oak Orchard Health has selected NextGen Healthcare for its EHR system.

Mobile, Ala.-based USA Health reduced its sepsis mortality rate by 16.5 percent after implementing new Oracle Cerner EHR workflows and alerts algorithms. 

EHR and software giant Oracle has agreed to pay more than $23 million to settle allegations that the company violated anti-bribery laws, The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 27. 

The EHR landscape is changing rapidly, and executives at the two companies with the largest hospital market share, Epic and Oracle Cerner, are in a race to dominate the next iteration of health IT.

Several hospital and medical associations are asking HHS to delay by a year the new information blocking rules that are scheduled to go into effect Oct. 6.

The Veterans Health Administration's rollout of its Oracle-Cerner EHR system will not continue until patient safety concerns are addressed, according to Sept. 26 reporting in FedScoop.

Larry Ellison and Safra Catz — chair and CEO, respectively, of the EHR and software giant Oracle — were compensated more than $138 million in the company's last fiscal year, according to Sept. 23 reporting in The Wall Street Journal.

Clinical research IT solutions company Aspen Insights is joining the digital EHR application store Athenahealth Marketplace.

Oracle Cerner currently has 204 job openings, according to Linkedin. 

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