EHRs

After deploying its new EHR on March 3, United Community & Family Services is now redirecting its full focus from optimizing the Epic system to its response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Here are seven digital alerts and tools that hospitals and health systems have recently developed or integrated with their EHR systems.

Athenahealth is integrating the latest CDC guidance on the coronavirus pandemic into its mobile medical decision support application for clinicians, according to a March 19 news release.

Allscripts released guidance for its healthcare clients to expedite telehealth services at their respective organizations through its EHR patient engagement platform, according to a March 18 news release.

Cerner temporarily closed its Realization campus in Kansas City, Mo., on March 17 after being notified that one of the EHR vendor's employees tested positive for COVID-19.

Sentara Norfolk (Va.) General Hospital, part of Sentara Healthcare, developed an automated program within its EHR to screen newborns for inherited diseases, Inside Business reports.

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., CMS is evaluating the timeline for its final interoperability rule that was released earlier this month.

Worcester-based UMass Memorial Medical Center deployed a new function in its EHR system on March 17 that allows clinicians to message medical questions to an infection control provider, the Worcester Business Journal reports.

More than half of hospitals did not use patient information from outside their EHR in the first quarter of 2020 because their systems' workflows did not support data from external providers, according to a recent Black Book report.

Cerner has appointed Patrick Murphy as new chairman of its government advisory board as well as three additional new members, according to a March 16 news release.