EHRs

Before delving into an EHR customization project, hospitals and health systems should consider various factors in order to set up their organization for success.

Minneapolis-based Allina Health partnered with Excel Medical, a medical device integration and analytics company, and will join its innovation program geared toward enhancing Epic EHR workflows.

Australia's Queensland public hospitals experienced EHR downtime Sept. 10 due to a routine Cerner software patch, Brisbane Times reports.

EHR vendors Epic and Cerner have each recently unveiled initiatives that aim to propel the use of de-identified patient data for medical research.

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.

Eastland (Texas) Memorial Hospital, Pawhuska (Okla.) Hospital and Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital in Manistique, Mich., each recently partnered with Cerner to implement the vendor's EHR cloud-based platform.

Stephen Beck, MD, brings more than 20 years of experience working with Epic to his role as chief medical information officer at Bluetree Network, a Madison, Wis.-based Epic consulting firm.

More than half (52 percent) of information technology and business executives at healthcare provider organizations across the country took notice of Cerner and Amazon's recent partnership, according to a Reaction Data report.

Danny Scott, CIO at Vincennes, Ind.-based Good Samaritan, has been the head of IT at the hospital for the past three years.

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