EHRs

Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute shut its doors March 1, leaving patients scrambling, and in some cases still fighting to get their medical records, according to local ABC affiliate WFTS.

Willmar, Minn.-based Carris Health, a nonprofit subsidiary of CentraCare Health in St. Cloud, Minn., will go live on an Epic EHR May 1, West Central Tribune reports.

Although Cerner shares have seen a double digit increase this year — 20 percent — the EHR developer is expected to see even bigger growth, activist investor Jeff Smith, CEO of Starboard Value, told CNBC.

Health iPass, an Oak Brook, Ill.-based medical billing service, has partnered with athenahealth to streamline patient payment options, according to a press release.

Meditech is integrating a prenatal care, delivery and postnatal care solution to its web-based EHR platform Meditech Expanse.

Advocates, protestors and legislators in Vermont are debating whether to make patients medical records available to physicians in a statewide database, according to the VTDigger.

According to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, first-year physicians spend, on average, 43 percent of the day interacting with patients' electronic health records.

Blockchain developer Augusta HiTech launched its first blockchain-powered EHR platform, which streamlines data sharing between patients and emergency medical services.

Cerner and naviHealth, a provider of post-acute care management, have extended their partnership to create a new offering for Medicare's Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced program.

After the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was passed in 2009, physicians were hopeful that EHRs would improve efficiency and care; however, 10 years later, the technology systems still have a long way to go, otolaryngology…