EHRs

Verona, Wis.-based Epic last month received approval for the construction of two new office buildings on its storybook-themed campus, according to a Jan. 9 Cap Times report.

Coos Bay, Ore.-based Bay Area Hospital is teaming up with St. Charles Health System in Bend, Ore., to provide an integrated Epic EHR system for the organizations' clinicians and patients.

Cerner Innovation, a subsidiary of the Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR vendor, was granted a patent on Jan. 7 for a device that identifies inadequacies in blood samples before they get processed, Kansas City Business Journal reports.

Cerner board members Linda Dillman, Julie Gerberding, MD, and Melinda Mount were named to WomenInc's 2019 Most Influential Corporate Board Directors edition, according to a Jan. 8 news release.

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.