EHRs

South Boston, Va.-based Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital, part of the Sentara Healthcare network, implemented an Epic EHR on Feb. 2, according to The Gazette Virginian.

Sunnybrook Health Sciences in Toronto will implement Allscripts' cloud-based, mobile anesthesia information management system, according to a Feb. 5 news release.

Oklahoma University Medicine and its academic partner University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center signed a five-year, $200 million contract to install an Epic EHR, according to a Feb. 4 news release.

Cerner posted $5.7 billion in full-year revenue for 2019, up 6 percent from the previous year, according to the Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR vendor's Feb. 4 report.

More than a quarter of hospitals under 150 beds are in the process of assessing cloud-based replacement systems for their EHRs, according to a recent Black Book report.

Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, all in New York City, on Feb. 1 went live on a new Epic EHR system.

Jonathan Bush, executive chairman of Firefly Health, HHS Secretary Alex Azar and the American Medical Informatics Association are some of the latest health IT executives and organizations to publicly speak out about HHS' proposed interoperability rule.

Artificial intelligence tools built into the EHR may help health systems implement strategies such as targeted overbooking; however, the technology presents various layers of potential bias toward vulnerable patient populations, according to a Jan. 31 Health Affairs report.

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.

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