EHRs

Cerner has been awarded $158 million by the Department of Veterans Affairs to continue deploying its EHR at VA medical facilities. 

Seven in 10 hospitals experience at least one challenge with reporting health information to public health agencies in 2019, according to a recent ONC data brief. 

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 Department of Veterans Affairs is migrating to the cloud platform for Nuance's automated clinical note-taking system, the health system said Sept. 8.

New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has launched "MyMountSinai" to offer patients additional features that aren't currently available in Epic's MyChart mobile application.

Cameron Burt, former managing director of Cerner's Asia Pacific and Middle East regions, joined healthcare communications platform Rauland Australia as its new CEO, the company said Sept. 6. 

Four traveling nurses quit their assignments at Providence St. Joseph Hospital just one day after starting because they were unfamiliar with the Eureka, Calif.-based hospital's EHR system, the Times Standard reported Sept. 4. 

New York City-based Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers developed an artificial intelligence-powered algorithm that can learn to read patient data from EHRs as accurately as the traditional, labor-intensive "gold-standard" method, the organization said Sept. 2. 

Nick Drosos is Co-Founder and COO of Curie, a healthtech company based out of Cleveland, OH that has made groundbreaking innovations in EHR interoperability. He spoke with Becker's August 30th about industry trends, the future of healthcare, and Curie’s cutting-edge…

Though e-prescription platforms are widely used, many fail to stop dispensing prescriptions discontinued by physicians, according to a study published Aug. 30 in JAMA Internal Medicine.