EHRs / Interoperability

The Department of Defense's EHR modernization program with Cerner is 30 percent complete, according to a June 13 article by Federal Computer Week.

As more hospitals and health systems move to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for employees, EHR vendors Epic, Cerner and Meditech are keeping a close watch to inform their own policies. 

EHR systems with poor user experience designs are associated with more burnout for clinicians and worse surgical outcomes for patients, according to a study recently published in Medical Care.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense are gearing up to test their single, interoperable Cerner EHR system for the first time since the agencies began working on the program six years ago, according to a June…

Richard Stone, MD, who serves as the acting undersecretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration, is set to step down in mid-July, according to a June 10 report by FedScoop.

Below is a list of healthcare providers that announced plans to implement a new EHR or deployed a new system in 2021. 

Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner is eliminating 500 positions across its global workforce, according to a June 10 Kansas City Star report. 

Meditech, Athenahealth and DrChrono are joining Cerner in supporting Apple's new health data-sharing feature.

HHS will publish a timeline in the next few months to outline steps in its national interoperability framework for sharing electronic health information, according to a June 8 FedScoop report. 

The Biden administration is recommending $2.7 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs' EHR modernization program with Cerner for the upcoming fiscal year, according to a June 8 report by Federal News Network.