EHRs

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie on Feb. 3 fired James Byrne, the VA deputy secretary who oversaw the department's EHR modernization effort, FedScoop reports.

Pulling patient information from disparate source systems can lead to inconsistencies of care, and often, avoidable patient safety issues. With dbMotion™ Solution, creating a unified patient record is possible—regardless of the format source system the information originated in.

The major EHR providers all made big moves over the past few years as they continue to compete for market share, invest in new technology development and enter into strategic partnerships with health systems as well as big tech companies.

Here are 10 updates on Cerner's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in January.

Here are five updates on Epic's operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker's Hospital Review in January.

Epic's recent campaign over privacy concerns against HHS' proposed interoperability rule is "indisputably cynical," said Jonathan Bush, executive chairman of Firefly Health, according to Politico's Jan. 31 Morning eHealth newsletter.

Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health announced on Feb. 3 that it is both a founding member and the first health system to join the Cerner Learning Health Network, which aims to make de-identified clinical data more accessible for medical studies.

Epic and Meditech received the highest scores for acute care EMRs in large and community hospitals, respectively, according to KLAS Research's 2020 rankings.

After Maryland became one of the top five states for opioid-related deaths in 2017, Annapolis-based Anne Arundel Health System created a formula to measure opioid overprescribing within its EHR system, according to a Feb. 2 Baltimore Sun report.

A federal judge on Jan. 31 dismissed the National Federation of the Blind's lawsuit against Epic, which claimed the EHR vendor's software isn't suitable for blind and low-vision users, according to the Feb. 3 Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.