EHRs / Interoperability

Chicago-based Allscripts tapped nine women as executive leaders in 2020. 

Allscripts streamlined its EHR software to allow providers to record and coordinate their COVID-19 vaccine administration data on a single platform.

Diameter Health, a data optimization company focused on interoperability for healthcare organizations, on Dec. 17 closed an $18 million series B financing round.

CHI Saint Joseph Health in Lexington, Ky., will transition to Epic's EHR in January, according to a Nelson County Gazette report.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente added a new function to its EHR that lets physicians and therapists order digital healthcare apps for patients directly through the system, according to a Dec. 16 news release. 

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

Allscripts on Dec. 16 launched its updated EHR platform Sunrise 20.0, which runs on Microsoft's cloud software Azure. 

Cerner formed an agreement to acquire Kantar Health, the clinical research division of data and consulting company Kantar Group, for $375 million, according to a Dec. 16 news release. 

Westwood, Mass.-based Meditech made headlines this year amid new partnerships with Google and the American Health Information Management Association as well as EHR rollouts at numerous hospitals and clinics.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases awarded Philadelphia-based Temple University $2.5 million to develop EHR-based tools that help better predict which patients with diabetes are more likely to need additional hospital visits.