EHRs

Cerner launched its new near-site health network Anuva Health, which aims to combine in person and virtual care services for organizations to offer to their employees at lower costs.

Physicians experience various factors that negatively impact their EHR user experience and leave them spending more time on administrative tasks than direct patient care, according to an essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Most hospital executives and administrators believe the accuracy of patient matching when information is exchanged between organizations with different EHR systems is subpar, according to a recent Pew Charitable Trusts report.

The Physicians Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that supports physician workflow and patient care, is forming a fund dedicated to improving EHR interoperability and state health information exchanges.

Culbertson, Mont.-based Roosevelt Medical Center is transitioning to an athenahealth EHR, according to Roundupweb.

The federal Health IT Advisory Committee's Information Blocking Task Force advanced several recommendations May 13 to ONC's proposed interoperability rule, according to a Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

MDMetrix, a software startup from Seattle Children's Hospital, received $3 million in its latest financing round in support of its data analytics tool, which pulls patient information from EHRs for physician use, Geekwire reports.

Utica, N.Y-based Mohawk Valley Health System plans to implement an Epic EHR in June, Eyewitness News reports.

University of Arizona in Phoenix researchers received a $766,000 grant to develop alerts within an EHR system that notify physicians when a prescription drug may put a patient at risk of cardiac arrhythmia.

Cerner is teaming up with DrFirst, a medication management solutions provider, to integrate data from numerous states' prescription drug monitoring programs into its EHR systems.