EHRs / Interoperability

In 2018, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs tapped Cerner to overhaul its EHR system. Recently, a series of slowdowns, legislative spats and open letters have again turned attention to the VA's EHR overhaul process.

Epic, the nation's largest EHR vendor, opposed some proposed changes by ONC that the agency says will improve interoperability, healthcare data exchange and health IT transparency.

CommonWell Health Alliance's network surpassed 200 million individuals nationwide, which corresponds to sharing electronic health data for about 62 percent of the U.S. population.

EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare is paying $31 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act, the U.S. Justice Department said July 14. 

Small, rural and safety-net hospitals across the U.S. are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding and community grants to purchase and install EHRs.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is pushing back against legislation that would require it to report codified improvement metrics for any new deployments of the Oracle Cerner EHR system, Washington Technology reported July 13. 

Epic's workforce has grown in the last two years as the company continues to transform.

Community health organizations in Connecticut, North Carolina, Arizona and Idaho went live with OCHIN's Epic this quarter.

Epic Systems is working on streamlining communications between healthcare providers and insurance companies, as the vendor says the process is time-consuming, Wisconsin Public Radio reported July 12.  

Oakland, Md.-based Garrett Regional Medical Center went live with its new patient portal, MyWVUChart, on July 1 as it completed its full integration with Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Health System.