EHRs

As part of its collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Cerner is developing technology to target healthcare issues including high hospital readmission rates and clinical documentation burdens, according to the EHR vendor's CEO and Chairman Brent Shafer.

Epsi, Allscripts' healthcare decision analytics and budgeting business, released a new analytics platform that provides data visualizations to help hospital leaders analyze clinical, financial and operational performance, according to a Dec. 3 news release.

Southwest Transplant Alliance announced on Dec. 3 that it will extend its electronic referral technology for potential organ donors to health systems throughout Texas.

As 2019 comes to a close, the debate between potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates regarding healthcare is heating up.

Cerner has developed a new platform using Amazon Web Services that supports data scientists in creating, deploying and managing machine learning models at scale, according to a Dec. 3 news release.

Cerner announced on Dec. 2 that it has achieved its 500th patent: a new voice-assisted technology to support clinician documentation.

In a little over a month, Cerner has made multiple key partnerships and announcements about the company's direction moving forward.

Cheyenne (Wyo.) Regional Medical Center on Nov. 19 launched a mobile and tablet-based application across its inpatient units that allows patients to access information regarding their condition, treatment and hospital stay.

Department of Veterans Affairs will enact the VA Mission Act in early 2020, which will allow the agency to automatically share VA patients' health information with their community providers, according to a Nov. 20 VA blog post.

American Medical Association announced on Nov. 20 a new policy for using EHRs to streamline public health surveillance.