EHRs

James Kluttz has served as vice president and chief technology officer at Novant Health for the past six years.

Epic has moved to expand its Verona, Wis.-based headquarters to make room for an additional 1,200 employees in the next few years, Milwaukee Business News reports.

Cerner will transfer an estimated 360 jobs in information technology and revenue management services from its Kansas City-based headquarters back to Adventist Health, according to Kansas City Business Journal.

Porter Medical Center in Middlebury, Vt., will deploy the first wave of its new Epic EHR system Nov. 1, The Middlebury Campus reports. 

Cerner announced Oct. 3 it is teaming up with population health management platform i2i Population Health to help reduce costs and improve healthcare for Medicaid populations.

Lexington (Neb.) Regional Health Center will implement Cerner's EHR cloud-based platform.

Meditech announced Oct. 3 that it is now offering its Expanse and 6.0 EHR clients access to Apple Health Records. 

While system-level change is required to make changes to EHR aspects that cause physician burnout, there are some measures physicians can try out to boost efficiency with their EHR in its current state, according to the American Academy of Pediatricians.

As the Department of Veteran Affairs goes through its EHR transition, the department plans to share patients' records with its network of physicians when patients seek care outside of the VA, according to Connecting Vets Radio.

Meditech announced Oct. 2 that it will be one of the first EHRs available through Google Cloud.