EHRs

Chicago-based Rush University Medical Center unveiled its own EHR platform to patients, known as the My Rush mobile app, according to a Aug. 20 news release.

An estimated 92 percent of the U.S. population's medical data is shared via health information exchanges, according to a recent Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative survey.

UC San Diego is the first University of California campus to integrate its student health services and counseling and psychological services with its healthcare organization's EHR system.

Simon Mouyal will serve as chief marketing officer of athenahealth, the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR vendor announced Aug. 19.

Nearly one in five clinicians associate EHR design and use with  workplace stress and burnout, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open.

Despite a federal push to increase patients' access to their medical data with application programming interfaces and smartphone-based apps, only a small number of patients who use their provider's EHR patient portal are also using APIs to send the data…

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is partnering with nearby fire and emergency medical services departments to upload patients' health information directly to the hospital's EHR system, Columbus Dispatch reports. 

Starboard Value, the Cerner investor that voted to overhaul part of the EHR vendor’s  board in April, decreased its stake in Cerner by 3.1 percent, Kansas City Business Journal reports. 

Hyannis, Mass.-based Cape Cod Healthcare will break ground on a $180 million, six-story patient care tower and begin the implementation process for a systemwide Epic EHR, Barn Stable Patriot reports.

Despite recent policy push to increase patients' access to their health records, more than half of providers are out of compliance with the HIPAA right of access, according to a recent Ciitizen report.