EHRs

Athenahealth, a Watertown, Mass.-based health IT software company, appointed Bill Conway as its new chief sales officer to lead the company's strategic execution efforts and improve customers' clinical outcomes.

Although patient portals often have a lot of valuable features, patients' use of the portals is declining at surprising rates, according to an American Medical Association blog post.

A more interoperable health system will improve health outcomes and efficiency, wrote David Brailer, MD, PhD, former health IT czar under President George W. Bush, in an op-ed for The Hill. However, achieving this goal will require tech companies and…

Lebanon, N.H.-based Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital switched over to an Epic EHR May 11.

A House committee recommended upping the budget for the VA's Cerner implementation from $1.1 billion to $1.6 billion in 2020, the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter reported.

Carle Richland Memorial Hospital plans to implement an Epic EHR to increase interoperability and transfer of medical records, Orion Gazette reports.

Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Health is testing an EHR training program that aims to provide nurses with hands-on experience with care documentation during patient procedures.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate health committee, urged HHS to move slowly with new interoperability rules, in the committee's hearing May 8 on implementing the EHR provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act.

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

ProMedica Coldwater (Mich.) Regional Hospital implemented an Epic EHR, WTVB reports.