EHRs

Jeff Townsend, Cerner executive vice president and chief of innovation, will retire by the end of 2019, the EHR vendor announced Sept. 9.

To alleviate EHR-induced burnout, clinicians should allot time when not seeing patients to learn system efficiencies to "tame the electronic beast," according to family medicine physician R. Zorba Paster, MD, of SSM Health Dean Medical Group in Madison, Wis.

Department of Defense went live Sept. 7 on its new Cerner EHR at four sites in California and Idaho, according to the Military Health System website.

UC San Francisco and New York City-based Cornell Tech are among five healthcare organizations collaborating to develop a public service that allows Android users to access their electronic medical records from their phone.

Allscripts was recognized as the top EHR vendor for meeting client implementation expectations globally, according to a recent Black Book report. 

Eight hospitals and health systems have implemented or announced plans to deploy Allscripts EHR software this year.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock signed an executive order Sept. 4 that will delegate $19 million in federal funding to develop a statewide health information exchange, Montana Public Radio reports.

Paul Brient, former CEO at EHR software company PatientKeeper, joined Athenahealth as the health IT vendor's new chief product officer.

Cerner will lay off 255 employees as part of the EHR vendor's efforts to curb costs, Kansas City Business Journal reports.

The Florida Health Information Exchange and Audacious Inquiry, a health IT policy company, have activated the state's emergency census service to help expand response efforts amid Hurricane Dorian, according to the Sept. 4 Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.