EHRs

EHR vendors Cerner and Athenahealth's appeal of a patent for CliniComp's healthcare management system failed to pass in the federal circuit's patent office April 20, according to court documents. 

From varying rates of usage among physicians specialties to best practices for curbing burnout, here are key insights from six recent studies on EHRs.  

Here are four healthcare organizations that recently announced plans to implement a new EHR or deployed a new system. 

To better understand symptoms associated with "long COVID-19," hospitals may need to make large changes to their EHRs, according to an April 14 Politico report.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is pausing deployment activities for its new $16 billion Cerner EHR system at a second site until it has completed a strategic review of the project and shared the results with Congress, according to an…

Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health teamed up with tech firm Nvidia to build an artificial intelligence-powered language processor that scans and pulls relevant data from EHRs for clinical initiatives.

Fifty members of Congress recently penned a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough over privacy concerns with the VA's protocols for health records access. 

Reports of excessive provider burnout brought on by the lack of interoperability in EHRs have created a market entry for Big Tech.

For overall response and support during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers using Epic and Meditech EHRs reported the highest rates of satisfaction with their vendors, according to a recent KLAS Research report. 

Google is in the early stages of a new project that aims to explore and develop a new consumer-facing health records tool for Android users, according to an April 9 STAT report.