EHRs

The Department of Veterans Affairs' 2021 budget may allocate a 12 percent increase in funding for IT modernization, including $1.1 billion more for its $16 billion Cerner EHR implementation, Fedscoop reports. 

Oklahoma University Medicine and its academic partner University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center tapped Optimum Healthcare IT to provide implementation support for its $200 million Epic EHR rollout. 

Epic has had a busy June that has included virtual implementations, new contracts and a partnership with a large payer.

Thirty-six hospitals and health systems that have taken steps to implement a new EHR or have already gone live on a new system in 2020.

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.

Taiwan's digital health infrastructure and central EHR system has played a big part in the country's successful COVID-19 response, serving as a model for the U.S. to potentially replicate in the future, according to a June 30 STAT op-ed.

Cerner has had a busy month, announcing several new partnerships, deals and staffing changes.

The pandemic has forced all healthcare professionals to act quickly and modify workflows, and hospital EHR leaders are no exception.

Combining the respective capabilities of EHRs and artificial intelligence may provide patients with more personalized caregiver recommendations, according to Quartz.

The Vincennes, Ind.-based Good Samaritan Board of Governors voted to expand Epic EHR to the Samaritan Center, which contains the hospital's outpatient services, on June 25.