EHRs

Cerner's leadership team has undergone several key changes this year, from welcoming a new CEO and its first chief health officer to the departure of executives. 

Consolidation within the EHR industry may help increase patient data-sharing between health systems and hospitals, according to a new study published Dec. 6. 

Scripps Memorial Hospital's Epic EHR uses an automated tool to mark up prices of supplies between 575 and 675 percent in real time within the EHR, The Los Angeles Times reported Dec. 10. 

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health partnered with New England Donor Services, the northeastern U.S.' organ procurement organization, to streamline the organ donation process, Harvard Business Review reported Dec. 13.

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted an initial decrease and then spike in the amount of time clinicians spend in their EHR, both during and after the workday, according to a study published Dec. 9 in the Journal of the American Medical…

Here are the EHR contracts and go-lives that Becker's has covered in 2021:

Epic has secured the highest client satisfaction scores for patient access functionality compared to fellow EHR competitors Meditech and Cerner, according to a Dec. 9 KLAS Research report. 

Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner shared in a Dec. 6 blog post a five-step method she devised to help employees tackle most problems before coming to her for solutions. 

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare teamed up with Meditech to roll out the vendor's cloud-based EHR platform across three New Hampshire hospitals, Meditech said Dec. 7 in a news release. 

Verona, Wis.-based EHR company Epic and Stanford (Calif.) Medicine are growing separate artificial intelligence and data-based initiatives to improve public health research and get physicians access to patient data insights in real time, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 3.