EHRs / Interoperability

Lawmakers have voiced their concern about the budget management of the Department of Veterans Affairs IT modernization initiative, according to a July 1 FedScoop report.

Saint Vincent Hospital, part of Tenet Healthcare in Dallas, is pushing back the launch of its new Cerner EHR system until early next year because of an ongoing nurses strike at the Worcester, Mass.-based hospital, according to a July 1…

The Department of Veterans Affairs has wrapped up a three-month long EHR Modernization Strategic Review on its Cerner rollout, yet lawmakers expressed concern the review isn't enough to recover from the multibillion-dollar initiative.

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.

The Justice Department opened a record number of healthcare fraud cases in 2020 and is focusing its fraud initiatives on healthcare employees who make false claims with EHRs, according to a June 29 Bloomberg Law report.

From a round of employee layoffs to teaming up with Apple on a new health records-sharing initiative, here are 11 updates on Cerner's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in June.  

University of California San Diego Health is offering its patients who have or will receive a COVID-19 vaccine a digital vaccine record that verifies their status, the health system said June 29. 

Cerner's leadership ranks are filled with health IT veterans. Here are 15 executives to know.

From its phased approach for returning to campus to launching a new patient engagement tool with Penn Medicine, here are eight updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in June. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic teamed up with artificial intelligence firm Nference to launch the largest studies thus far demonstrating the side effects and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, according to two studies published June 28 in Med.