EHRs

An Oracle executive in charge of the VA EHR modernization project said the company intends to rewrite the Cerner system as a new, cloud-based application for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Spokesman-Review reported Sept. 21.

Oracle Cerner has been working on interoperability for years and announced new efforts in recent months since its $28.4 billion acquisition by Oracle.

A new study from the Philadelphia-based Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania suggests that clinicians being able to order genetic testing through EHR systems directly saves time.

HHS' Office of Civil Rights has settled with three dental offices over potential violations of a HIPAA provision giving patients the right of timely, affordable access to their medical records.

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. Here are 14 hospitals and health systems that have posted job listings seeking EHR and…

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 Epic EHRs.

Oracle Cerner's penalty charge, imposed by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the number of outages the system has experienced, has come under fire from Rep. Matt Rosendale, FedScoop reported Sept. 20. 

The Veterans Health Administration has awarded a renewal contract to maintain and modernize its dialysis electronic medical record software to health IT company Document Storage Solutions.

Epic Systems currently has 6,520 job openings, according to Linkedin. 

Chuck Christian has been working on healthcare data exchange and interoperability for decades.