EHRs

Private equity firm Veritas Capital and Elliott Investment Management are considering business options for Athenahealth including selling the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR company for $20 billion or filing an initial public offering, Bloomberg reported Sept. 23. 

Cerner, Epic and Health Catalyst are among some of the most frequently adopted vendors hospitals and health systems have tapped for data analytics support, according to a recent KLAS Research report. 

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 definition of "electronic health information" will need to be standardized to ensure compliance with HHS' Cures Act Final Rule, according to a recent report by The American Health Information Management Association, the American Medical Informatics Association and the Electronic…

Alignment Healthcare is adding Dignity Health to its pool of in-network providers for Maricopa County, Ariz., Medicare Advantage members. 

Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center is beginning to sort through thousands of pieces of mail after they were left in a basement for more than 10 months, according to a Sept. 20 report by CBS affiliate WBS 2.

HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT unveiled 13 new elements for its Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, which works toward achieving a single pathway to interoperability across health information networks. 

Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare partnered to launch Preferred Blue Option, a new preferred provider organization. 

Apple iPhone's latest software update, iOS 15, launched Sept. 20 and will allow users to share their Health app data with their physicians, according to a Sept. 20 report by The Verge.

Here, eight hospital CIOs share the EHR project they've been most excited by or proud of in 2021, from integrating home care to facilitating mass vaccination efforts to improving the patient experience.