EHRs

Some lawmakers are beginning to express frustration over the pace of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense's progress on developing an interoperable EHR system, Military.com reports.

Tupelo-based North Mississippi Health Services installed an Epic EHR system in mid-April, Daily Journal reports.

Julie Wilson, chief people officer of Cerner, is retiring, effective June 30.

Epic's software may slow down blind hospital workers, but it doesn't prevent them from doing their jobs, the EHR vendor said April 29 in response to a disability lawsuit, according to Politico's Morning eHealth newsletter.

Meditech is launching a new division that will offer customers various professional services aimed at enhancing its web-based EHR platform Expanse.

Meditech filed its earnings results for the first quarter of 2019 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission April 30.

More physicians (44 percent) believe that EHRs have hurt quality of care in their workplace than the 40 percent who said the technology has improved it, according to a recent Medscape poll released May 1.

Epic and Cerner maintained the largest share of the EMR market for acute care hospitals in 2018, according to a recent KLAS Research report.

Personal health records for U.S. citizens would help improve the country's healthcare system and enhance interoperability between providers, Barbara Casey, global healthcare leader at information technology and networking company Cisco Systems, told Thrive Global.

EHRs may not be the time-saving, healthcare-streamlining tools physicians were initially promised, but according to Robert Pearl, MD, former executive director and CEO of the Permanente Medical Group, all it will take to fix that piece of software is another,…