EHRs

The Department of Veterans Affairs is partnering with HealthHIE Nevada, the state's health information exchange, to improve EHRs sharing among  providers and VA medical facilities, Las Vegas Sun reports.

About three in 10 patients who were offered access to view their medical records online did so, but only one or two times in 2018, according to an ONC analysis.

Fairfield, Calif.-based David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis will go live on the Department of Defense's new Cerner-supported EHR in September.  

Most U.S. hospitals that reach Stage 4 on HIMSS Analytics' EMR Adoption Model do not experience EMR benefits they anticipated, even five years post-certification, according to a Chartis Group report.

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

The Georgia Department of Public Health is teaming up with Appriss Health to integrate the state's prescription drug monitoring program into EHR systems across Georgia.

Springfield, Mass.-based Baystate Health will deploy Artifact Health's mobile application that aims to support the physician query process by improving clinical documentation practices.

Epic added telehealth technology company TytoCare's platform to its App Orchard.

While more physicians used patient health information from outside organizations in years 2015 and 2017, interoperability among office-based physicians did not improve during the same time frame, according to an ONC analysis.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare researchers designed a computer algorithm that integrates with patients' EHRs to help determine an individual's risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.