EHRs

From the departure of its CEO to bringing on a new financial chief, Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner has made several changes to its leadership team in the first half of 2021. 

The Office of the National Coordinator is prioritizing addressing inequalities that have been long driven by poverty and racism. Through documenting, reporting, accessing and using social determinants of health, the ONC expects to help eliminate health disparities and improve health…

Michigan health insurer Priority Health launched an electronic portal to streamline the preauthorization process for its members.

Five organizations that announced plans to implement a new EHR or deployed a new system in the last 30 days:

The Office of the National Coordinator is partnering with industry experts to draft policies standardizing addresses in EHRs to promote patient matching.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has released a digital tool, MyChart Bedside, to share scheduling and updated health information with patients, The Daily Pennsylvanian, reported June 16.

Aspen (Colo.) Valley Hospital plans to go live on a new Epic EHR system in October 2022, The Aspen Times reported June 16. 

Three of the major EHR vendors participated in acquisition activities over the past year, inking deals with data, revenue cycle management and other health IT companies. 

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.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is the latest health system to join Apple's Health Records project, which gives patients access to their medical records directly from their iPhone, according to a June 15 news release.