EHRs

The Nebraska Health Information Initiative, a nonprofit statewide health information exchange, is teaming up with clinical data exchange platform Secure Exchange Solutions to streamline access to patients' clinical data for providers in Nebraska and neighboring states.

Florida's prescription drug monitoring program is now sharing data with the Military Health System's PDMP in a move that will help expand care providers' access to military members' medication histories.

Springdale, Ark.-based Northwest Health now offers its patients access to their medical information through Apple's health records application on iPhone, Talk Business reports.

Cerner's Continuous campus was on lockdown Tuesday morning after a man armed with an assault rifle went to a nearby hotel and told employees he was heavily armed and heading toward a shopping center in the same area, NBC affiliate KSHB…

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to 2018 ONC data.

Abilene, Texas-based Hendrick Health System, which uses an Allscripts EHR, achieved Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model.

From a decrease in time spent on face-to-face interactions with patients to extensive documentation requirements for clinical notes, EHRs have drummed up varying frustrations among healthcare professionals.

Department of Veterans Affairs is on track for its 10-year Cerner EHR rollout, with plans to implement the new system at dozens of VA hospitals and medical centers each year by 2021, according to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.

Cerner has forged new partnerships and launched various initiatives in support of technological innovation and streamlining patient access to health data this summer.

Hartford (Conn.) Healthcare will help former patients of InHealth Connecticut, a Willimantic-based healthcare provider, obtain copies of their medical records after InHealth abruptly closed in April, The Day reports.