Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a new law May 6 that requires state medical providers that are going out of business to give patients access to their medical records, AZ Central reports.
EHRs / Interoperability
Verato, a provider of cloud-based patient identity matching based in McLean, Va., issued a response to the ONC's proposed rule to implement provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act that encourage interoperability and facilitate access to and use of electronic…
Here are insights on four EHR vendors' earnings results for the first quarter of 2019:
Allscripts posted $286 million in bookings for the first quarter of 2019, up 9 percent year over year.
Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Spine Hospital will implement Evident's cloud-based EHR system Thrive by the fourth quarter of 2019.
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Health information technology company CPSI reported $69 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2019, down 1 percent year over year.
Some lawmakers are beginning to express frustration over the pace of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense's progress on developing an interoperable EHR system, Military.com reports.
Tupelo-based North Mississippi Health Services installed an Epic EHR system in mid-April, Daily Journal reports.
Julie Wilson, chief people officer of Cerner, is retiring, effective June 30.
Epic's software may slow down blind hospital workers, but it doesn't prevent them from doing their jobs, the EHR vendor said April 29 in response to a disability lawsuit, according to Politico's Morning eHealth newsletter.