EHRs

Sundance, Wyo.-based Crook County Medical District is switching to Oracle Cerner as its EHR vendor, The Sundance Times reported Sept. 8.

Epic has been working on interoperability for years and announced new efforts in recent months.

As the federal government and many patients push for a national electronic exchange of health information, big EHR vendors like Meditech will have a lot of say in how quickly we get to that point.

EHR system MHS Genesis will go live at Lyster Army Health Clinic and Brown Dental Clinic at Fort Rucker in Dale County, Ala., on Sept. 27, according to Sept. 8 reporting in The Enterprise Ledger.

From integrating revenue cycle management platforms into Epic's EHR system, to using Epic applications to provide patients with individualized cancer treatments, here are three ways health systems are using Epic to provide better patient care and improve their operational efficiencies. 

Clinical decision-making software application AvoMD is now available on EHR giant Epic's App Orchard.

Epic Systems pays its software engineers $25,492 more than Oracle Cerner, according to average salary postings from payscale.com. 

Here are four health systems that have implemented new EHR systems since Aug. 2. 

eClinicalWorks is moving its EHR to Microsoft Azure and plans to invest $100 million in the tech giant.

The IT business unit of General Dynamics has won an $89 million EHR operating and modernization contract with the Indian Health Service, according to Sept. 2 reporting in govconwire.com.