1. Vanderbilt LifeFlight, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s critical air transport service, uses Epic’s mobile app that lets nurses and paramedics access a patient’s health records while in flight.
2. Mercy Medical Center—Des Moines (Iowa) formed a multiyear agreement with TransformativeMed, a digital solutions developer that embeds specialized clinical workflows into Cerner’s EHR, to enhance diabetes management.
3. Bay Spring, Miss.-based Jasper General Hospital will go live on an Evident EHR in May.
4. New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System and One Medical, a primary care, membership-based clinic group in San Francisco, formed an agreement to increase EHR interoperability among healthcare providers and expand care services to patients in New York.
5. Bethlehem, Pa.-based St. Luke’s University Health Network will expand its use of Masimo remote patient monitoring technologies that transfer data directly to the health system’s Epic EHR.
6. Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter’s Health Partners and United Concierge Medicine, a telemedicine provider, launched a program to improve medical care of individuals who have been sexually assaulted.
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