EHRs

Healthcare managed services provider Cloudticity and Epic infrastructure services provider Sapphire Health are collaborating to smooth the transition of providers using Epic's EHR to the Amazon Web Services Cloud, the companies said Aug. 9.

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 15 hospitals and health systems that have posted job listings seeking EHR and…

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Oracle Cerner EHR system suffered a three-hour outage on Aug. 4 resulting in downtime and delays to VA patient databases, FedScoop reported Aug. 5. 

Greenbrae, Calif.-based MarinHealth Medical Center's new EHR system called APeX went live at the health system Aug. 8. 

Health data interoperability has long been a goal of health IT executives and policy experts. But it's 2022 — and the healthcare system doesn't appear all that close to getting there.

Allscripts will focus on payers and life sciences companies after selling its hospital and large physician practices division, CEO Rick Poulton announced in an earnings call Aug. 4. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs named David Massaro, MD, as functional champion for its Oracle Cerner EHR modernization program, FedScoop reported Aug. 2. 

Healthcare technology company Athenahealth is partnering with healthcare information company DrFirst to reduce prescription abandonment.

Below are four health systems that launched a new Epic EHR system or announced plans to do so since June 16.

Prescriptions for the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone have increased dramatically at Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine since the health system put a prescribing reminder in its Epic EHR, the vendor said in an Aug. 1 report.