EHRs

The Department of Defense's Cerner EHR rollout last September went "much, much smoother" than the agency's initial deployment efforts in 2017, according to DOD officials, Nextgov reports.

Athenahealth announced on Jan. 8 that Diane Bartoli will serve as the general manager of the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR vendor's mobile medical decision support services, Epocrates.

University at Buffalo (N.Y.) rolled out a collaborative training program that aims to provide first-year medical students with hands-on experience using an EHR, according to a Jan. 7 news release.

From forming partnerships with tech giants Apple and Google to launching a new division for EHR professional services, Meditech made several moves in 2019 that will continue to play out in the year ahead.

McLeod Health on Jan. 7 announced Marie Saleeby, RN, will become senior vice president of workflow optimization, a new position created to improve EHR usage at the Florence, S.C.-based health system.

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

Phoenix-based FastMed will deploy an Epic EHR system across its 100-plus network of urgent care clinics in North Carolina, Arizona and Texas.

Various healthcare organizations have asked CMS to address inadequate EHR usability and increase system safety requirements, according to a Jan. 3 Pew Charitable Trusts report.

Department of Veterans Affairs will go live on its new Cerner EHR system at five sites in March 2020, according to a Jan. 2 ConnectingVets report.

Liberty IT Solutions, which provides technology transformation services to government agencies, announced on Jan. 3 that it received $35 million to support the Department of Veterans Affairs' EHR modernization program.