EHRs

From the largest deployment of EHRs to date, to information regarding its pending Oracle acquisition, here are seven updates on Cerner's operations, partnerships and software products reported by Becker's Hospital Review in January.

Cerner was the company that referred to cloud computing in company filings the most among the 50 biggest employers in the medical devices industry between October 2020 and September 2021, according to a report published Jan. 31 by Medical Device…

From expanding its collaborative partnerships to hospitals implementing new tools through Epic systems, here are six updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in January.

Edison, N.J.-based Hackensack Meridian Health partnered with software development company Informatica to improve its data management capabilities, according to a Jan. 27 news release.

Below are five organizations that announced plans to implement an EHR or deployed a new EHR since Jan. 7.

The Department of Defense's new Cerner EHR system is about 38 percent deployed, according to a Jan. 26 news release. 

Oracle's pending deal to buy Cerner could mean million-dollar golden parachutes for the EHR giant's C-suite, as well as its former CEO.

Time spent on after-hours EHR documentation is one of the main factors driving clinicians' burnout. Clinicians' specialty, gender, region and organizational structure are the four main factors determining how much time they spend on this after-hours work, according to study…

Female clinicians see fewer patients per week and spend more time on EHR documentation than their male counterparts, leading to less pay and increased burnout, according to study results released Jan. 26 by EHR company Athenahealth. 

The neonatal intensive care unit at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is using an algorithm within its Epic EHR to calculate a score that displays infants' weight change from birth in an easily accessible time series visualization, EpicShare reported…