EHRs

Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, tapped Allscripts to provide and develop health IT software and solutions across its ARC Innovation Center in Chicago, according to an Aug. 19 news release. 

Cerner is teaming up with Testing for America to support efforts to bring rapid and affordable COVID-19 testing to students, faculty and staff at historically Black colleges and universities. 

EHR giant Epic plans to merge four of its departments into one larger application services division, according to an Aug. 14 email to staff obtained by Channel 3000. 

UnityPoint Health-Cedar Rapids (Iowa) reverted to paper records after a derecho storm with winds over 100 mph downed its network Aug. 10 at 12:30 p.m. CST.

St. Francis Medical Center is transitioning to Epic's EHR.

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health and the Pew Charitable Trusts penned a letter Aug. 10 to left-leaning think tank the Urban Institute asking it to include additional questions about usability and safety to ONC's provider survey on EHR reporting.

Epic told its employees Aug. 12 that they will now be permitted to work from home through at least the end of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a statement emailed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner is almost finished with building two new office towers that represent phases three and four of its 16-phase, $4.5 billion Innovations Campus project, according to an Aug. 7 Kansas City Business Journal report. 

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

A group of senators recently introduced new legislation aimed at improving healthcare providers' patient record matching capabilities and COVID-19 response coordination, according to an Aug. 11 FedScoop report.