EHRs

Jerome Labat will oversee Cerner's technology initiatives and cloud-enabled software-as-a-service platforms as the EHR vendor's new chief technology officer.

Over the past decade, hospital EHR systems' ability to detect harmful medication ordering errors has improved from 54 percent in 2009 to 66 percent in 2018, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. 

Staff members at a VA nursing home in Pennsylvania reported they were asked to change residents' medical records to hide staffing shortages and make patients seem healthier than they were, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Boston-based Mass General Brigham assigned a team of researchers to comb through COVID-19 patient data in the EHR, a process that can take up to eight hours for a single patient, before sending it off to global researchers, according to…

Johns Hopkins University, Stony Brook University and Oregon Health & Science University are among a group of 15 institutions participating in the National Institutes of Health's $25 million collaborative to integrate data from hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 patient medical…

While most hospitals and health systems have already implemented an EHR, many organizations are now exploring new ways to optimize and customize their systems, according to KLAS Research.

ONC granted $1.1 million in funding to health IT interoperability nonprofit the Sequoia Project to continue leading its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement project for the second year.

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth began its multimillion-dollar EHR transition from a Cerner system to Epic in March, dedicating a team of 350 full time to the project. 

More than 40 percent of hospitals report local, state and federal public health agencies are unable to electronically receive data, making it the most common barrier to public health reporting for the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent article published…

Pittsburgh-based insurer Highmark joined the Gravity Project, a Health Level Seven International interoperability collaborative that aims to standardize medical data used to identify social determinants of health.