The five most-read health IT stories from Becker's Hospital Review in June, beginning with the most popular:
1. Epic and Humana partner: 5 things to know
Electronic health records provider Epic and health insurer Humana have teamed up to improve patient and provider communication as well as access to health information.
2. 26 UHS hospitals experience Cerner EHR outage
Twenty-six Universal Health Services hospitals had limited access to their Cerner-based EHR systems June 21 following "technical problems" at one of the EHR vendor's data centers.
3. DOJ pursues slew of EHR cases: 5 things to know
The Department of Justice is taking legal action against hospitals, health systems and technology companies for submitting false claims to Medicare and Medicaid pursuant to the Electronic Health Records Incentive Program.
4. 70% of Cerner clients say they wouldn't use the vendor's RCO services again
Seventy percent of Cerner customers said they would not use the information technology vendor's revenue cycle outsourcing services again.
5. Routine Cerner update causes EHR downtime at Arizona hospital
Phoenix-based Abrazo Community Health Network's Cerner EHR system was down for three days last week following a routine update performed by the vendor.
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