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.

A new COVID-19 outbreak at a local veterans home in Spokane, Wash., may cause the Department of Veterans Affairs to further delay its Cerner EHR rollout to the fall, according to Politco. 

American Hospital Dubai is teaming up with Cerner to open the health system's first artificial intelligence research center in support of clinical AI and data analytics initiatives. 

Revenue cycle management services provider R1 announced June 3 it will acquire Cerner's RevWorks services business and commercial, non-federal client relationships. 

While patient identification and matching are not new issues for healthcare, the COVID-19 pandemic has "exposed deep-seated and long-standing deficiencies in the underlying technology infrastructure" for patient data sharing among providers, according to a commentary article published in npj Digital…

Wausau, Wis.-based North Central Health Care will roll out a new Cerner EHR system across its three multispecialty behavioral healthcare facilities. 

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…