EHRs

Health systems can improve their screening processes for patients at risk for type 2 diabetes by optimizing population health, clinical decision support and patient portal tools in the EHR, according to the American Medical Association.

Veradigm, Allscripts' payer and life sciences division, will integrate its technology and analytics abilities with the American College of Cardiology's outpatient national quality improvement registry to create an ambulatory chronic disease network.

One hundred and sixty-three 500+-bed hospitals purchased an Epic EMR last year, according to a recent KLAS Research report.

Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine deployed an algorithm alert system that analyzes patients' EHR data to help identify individuals at-risk of sepsis.

The Department of Veterans Affairs partnered with Cerner in May 2018 to design and deploy a new EHR across its care network that would put the department on the same records system as the Department of Defense.

Allscripts CFO Dennis Olis shared the EHR software company's revenue growth projections over the next three years during a June 5 presentation at the Jefferies 2019 Healthcare Conference in New York City.

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of EHR Modernization expanded its contract with Cerner with a $139.9 million task order aimed at increasing EHR interface support, GovConWire reports.

Ruston-based Northern Louisiana Medical Center patients can now access their medical data through Apple's health records app.

A federal judge tossed out a class-action lawsuit against EHR vendor Allscripts on June 4 over a ransomware attack that left several of its hospital clients unable to access their EHRs last year, Law360 reports.

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.