EHRs

MercyOne health system will transition to Epic EHR to align with Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health, which fully acquired the Clive, Iowa-based health system Sept. 1.

Digital health startups aim to fill the gaps left by the EHR giants, including Epic, according to a report from CB Insights.

Hospitals are eligible for increased financial incentives if they share data with public health authorities as part of a new CMS rule, Pew reported Aug. 31.

Virtual care company Carium Partners has integrated within the EHR system of the Institute of Population Health in Detroit.

Digital automation company ProofPilot is partnering with Human API in a collaboration that will work to allow researchers access to consenting patients' EHRs through ProofPilot.

The news that an EHR vendor consortium is signing on to a new federal health information sharing effort is a huge step toward creating a national healthcare data exchange, an Oracle Cerner executive wrote in an Aug. 31 blog post.

Hospital-acquired infections at Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth have fallen since it implemented a software program from Meditech, the EHR vendor said Aug. 30.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health has partnered with healthcare billing company Cedar to add a post-visit billing and payment platform management system into its Epic EHR system.  

Orange County, Calif.-based UCI Health has partnered with biomedical tech company Melax Tech to implement its natural language processing technology into its data science platform.

From its new parent company cutting jobs to problems with its U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs EHR rollout to a large racial discrimination settlement, here are 10 updates on Oracle Cerner reported by Becker's in August: