EHRs

Carson City, Nev.-based Carson Tahoe Health, a two-hospital health system with 21 provider locations, went live with Epic on Oct. 10.

Apple teamed up with five health systems in the U.K. and Canada to make its Health Records app available to patients, according to an Oct. 7 news release.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has assembled a cross-functional team to help ensure the Nashville, Tenn.-based health system is prepared to comply with HHS' new interoperability rules Nov. 1.

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

Lyft is integrating with Epic to allow healthcare workers to coordinate patient transportation directly from the EHR, according to an Oct. 8 news release.

Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Steve Wretling joined the Becker's Healthcare podcast to discuss the future of interoperability and how hospitals should prepare.

Sidney (Neb.) Regional Medical Center will deploy its new Epic EHR system Oct. 17. 

Medical scribes can help physicians treat more patients and schedule more return visits, which can offset the initial costs of employing a scribe in about a year or less, according to University of Chicago researchers. 

Rolla, Mo.-based Phelps Health went live with Epic EHR across its 242-bed health system.

Bloomfield-based New Jersey Urology partnered with Epic to develop and deploy a urology-centric EHR system, according to an Oct. 5 news release.