EHRs / Interoperability

The Epic App Orchard marketplace listed its first mental health platform.

Westwood, Mass.-based EHR vendor Meditech is led by a collection of tech industry veterans and previous healthcare executives.  

Cerner appointed retired Maj. Gen. Elder Granger, MD, of the U.S. Army to its board of directors, effective Nov. 16.

Patients and employers could see their healthcare costs decrease by 62 percent if diagnostic imaging was shifted from hospital outpatient settings to lower-cost imaging centers, according to a report from UnitedHealth Group.

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.

Chicago-based EHR vendor Allscripts is led by a collection of tech industry veterans and previous healthcare executives.  

As EHRs continue to age out from first and second generation software, hospitals and health systems will increasingly look to transition their current systems to a new platform.

Here are five digital alerts and tools that hospitals and health systems have developed or integrated with their EHR systems since October. 

UC San Diego Health has strengthened the continuity of care for its university students by supporting same-day video visits and accessible COVID-19 testing, which has been streamlined through the university's connection to the health system's Epic EHR.

Epic has made gains in the hospital EHR market share in the past year and has been instrumental during the pandemic in supporting field hospitals in New York, Chicago and other cities.