Cerner said it has suspended political donations to lawmakers who "took part in or incited violence" after supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, Kansas City, Mo.-based KMBC News reports.
EHRs / Interoperability
Meditech has expanded its EHR with Quick Vaccination, a digital tool that quickly documents and notifies state health systems of immunizations, which can speed up healthcare organizations' vaccination efforts, Meditech said.
Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth expects its Epic EHR implementation, which is set to go live over the next two years, to cost about $660 million, according to President and CEO Terry Shaw.
The COVID-19 pandemic has required health systems preparing for EHR conversions to delay implementations, forcing hospital project managers and consultants to quickly reconfigure EHR go-live processes.The innovations that have been fueled by the crisis point towards new value creation for…
MedStar St. Mary's Hospital will go live on Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health's EHR system Jan. 13.
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Athenahealth and Louisville, Ky.-based health insurer Humana inked a multiyear agreement to combine the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR vendor's software with health plan data, according to a Jan. 12 news release.
Petersburg (Alaska) Medical Center is moving forward with plans to deploy a new Cerner EHR system, according to a Jan. 7 Petersburg Pilot report.
Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech are four of the biggest EHR vendors for hospitals and health systems across the U.S.
Ahead of its upcoming reopening, East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry has regained access to its Meditech EHR after it was unable to access the system over the past few months, according to Steubenville, Ohio, TV station WTOV.
Amanda Adkins, vice president of strategic growth at Cerner, has left the Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR company after losing her campaign for a seat in Congress, according to The Kansas City Star.