EHRs

Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health has been given a month to fix an issue with its EHR system that has prevented Atrium from sharing medical records with its local EMS department, according to a March 21 Salisbury Post report.

Mercy Iowa City revealed plans to install Allscripts Sunrise EHR March 22.

Catholic Health's recent move to an Epic EHR system has delivered unanticipated benefits to the Buffalo, N.Y.-based health system's COVID-19 vaccination process, according to a March 19 Buffalo Business Journal report.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will launch a strategic review of its $16 billion Cerner EHR implementation to ensure the next deployments in the rollout avoid any issues, according to a March 19 VA news release.

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

Here are four digital alerts and tools that hospitals and health systems have recently developed or integrated with their EHR systems.

Verona, Wis.-based EHR giant Epic will open a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for its nearly 10,000 employees, according to a March 17 Channel 3000 report. 

Walmart will make COVID-19 vaccination records available digitally for those who receive shots at Walmart and Sam's Club, the retailer announced March 17.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Health partnered with EHR-agnostic platform IllumiCare to launch a new app that digitizes physicians' rounding lists, according to a March 17 news release.

An EHR log analysis showed that clinicians engage with unsolicited genetic test results only 1 percent of the time, suggesting that most clinicians don't use genetic data in medical decision-making, a March 1 report published in JAMA Network Open found.