EHRs

Health Level Seven International, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based interoperability nonprofit more commonly known as HL7, has opened applications for the HL7 FHIR accelerator program.

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

Cerner demonstrated new interoperability capabilities it plans to roll out through 2020 during the HIMSS19 trade show this week in Orlando, Fla.

Hospitals that earned Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model are more likely to report physician satisfaction with the systems, according to a report from KLAS Research and HIMSS Analytics.

Philadelphia-based Einstein Healthcare Network implemented clinical improvement solutions from Zynx Health to its Cerner EHR.

MIB, a membership corporation that providers underwriting services to insurance companies, signed an agreement to access EHR data from Veradigm, a subsidiary of Allscripts, for underwriting purposes.

Private equity firm Veritas Capital and Elliott Management-affiliate Evergreen Coast Capital completed their acquisition of athenahealth Feb. 11 for approximately $5.7 billion in cash.

Allscripts was the only publicly traded EHR vendor to see its stock prices drop last week.

Mukul Mehra, MD, has worked as gastroenterologist for more than a decade. Like many physicians, one of his frustrations is the EHR — he wants the systems to provide him with more information at the point of care, without leaving…

Veterans across the U.S. will soon have the option to access their medical data through the iPhone's Health app, thanks to a new partnership between Apple and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.