EHRs

About 400 Cerner workers will volunteer this week to help administer COVID-19 vaccines at the Kansas City, Mo.-based company's headquarters, according to a Feb. 1 Kansas City Star report. 

Epic has nabbed the No. 1 spot on KLAS Research's 2021 Overall Software Suite Rankings for the 11th consecutive year.

Here are five updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in January. 

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.

Watertown, Mass.-based Athenahealth agreed to pay $18.25 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by paying illegal kickbacks to sell its EHR products, according to a Jan. 28 Department of Justice news release.

Here are eight updates on Cerner's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in January.

Interoperability continues to improve in healthcare, with 67 percent of providers in 2020 reporting they often or nearly always have access to needed records, up from 28 percent in 2017, according to a recent KLAS Research and College of Healthcare…

The Chicago-based ARC Innovation Center at Sheba Medical Center on Jan. 27 selected DeepScribe, an artificial intelligence-powered medical documentation company, as the winner of its innovation challenge.

Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health will connect 21 of its hospitals to California's health information network Manifest MedEx, according to a Jan. 25 news release.

Information blocking among EHR vendors and health systems is still common despite policymakers' recent efforts to ban such practices, according to a January study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.