EHRs

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.

Discarded medical records from a shuttered clinic in Wilmington, N.C., were found in a dumpster behind the facility, according to a report from the StarNews Online, a local media outlet.

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health is teaming up with EHR optimization software company PatientKeeper to make its charge capture software an app embedded in Cerner EHR systems.

University of California Irvine Medical Center has opened a 16-bed unit that features patient rooms with interactive tech systems, including digital white boards that display EHR data. 

Interoperability was at the forefront of the health IT conversation before the pandemic, and then was moved aside for more pressing priorities.

Cerner on July 23 announced a new cloud-based EHR offering to help rural and critical access hospitals speed up the implementation process and reduce costs. 

Cerner announced July 23 a new agreement to deploy Holon Solutions' point-of-care platform that can extract relevant patient information from Cerner's population health platform and deliver it into the clinician's EHR workflow.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health reported a $24 million loss on $1.86 billion revenue in 2019 and partially blamed an EHR investment for the loss, according to a Buffalo Business First report.

Peter Liebert, who previously led cyber operations for the California State Guard, joined Cerner Government Services as its new vice president and CISO, according to Washington Exec. 

Cerner and Amazon Web Services inked an agreement in July 2019 aimed at improving efficiency and lowering costs.