EHRs

Baton Rouge, La.-based Woman's Hospital deployed Meditech's web-based EHR system earlier this month.

Cerner launched its Social Determinants Innovation Collaborative, which aims to tackle social determinants of health such as food insecurity, housing, transportation and access to healthcare.

A team-based intervention approach to improve EHR use and efficiency may help alleviate burdens that physicians report feeling when dealing with computer-based clerical work, according to a recent study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

The Pediatric Physicians' Organization at Boston Children's Hospital is expanding its medical home asthma program, which uses EHR data to help identify children at-risk of asthma.

Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital, part of the Owensboro (Ky.) Health network, completed its transition to an Epic EHR, Messenger-Inquirer reports.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is pushing back against Senate-introduced legislation that calls for the creation of a third-party committee to oversee the VA's Cerner EHR installation, Kansas City Business Journal reports.

Epic will construct a $21 million underground power line at its Verona, Wis.-based 1,100-acre campus due to its growing electricity needs, which the EHR vendor expects to double in the next decade, Wisconsin State Journal reports.

Healthcare has yet to achieve the promise of interoperability.

Epic launched American Well's virtual care platform in its App Orchard.

ACOs connected by a single EHR were more successful at care coordination, though most also supplement their EHR platform with other tools and technology, according to a report from HHS' Office of Inspector General.