EHRs

The CommonWell Health Alliance, a nonprofit that aims to enable data sharing in healthcare, rolled out a new way for health IT vendors and healthcare providers to connect to its nationwide interoperability network.

Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and their collaborators have come up with a five-point plan to improve the usability of EHRs in a paper published in JAMA.

Cerner plans to cut 129 positions as part of its contract with Augusta University Health in Georgia comes to an end, effective March 31, according to a filing with the state and reported by AtlantaInno.

Officials at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs told Congress the agency's EHR modernization effort could cost more and take more time than originally planned, Nextgov reports.

Cerner released its earnings results for its 2018 fiscal year on Feb. 5, 2019, posting a 4 percent rise in revenue.

HealtheConnections and HealthlinkNY — two organizations that link health information exchanges in New York state — agreed to merge Jan. 30.

Aprima is the No. 1 EMR in the small practice market when ranked by customer satisfaction, according to a report from market research firm KLAS Research.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is integrating artificial intelligence software into its EMR at 15 hospitals in an attempt to decrease avoidable readmissions.

Patient safety and health IT experts have teamed up with the American Medical Association to launch a new campaign to resolve poor EHR usability, dubbed "EHR See What We Mean."  

A study from the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University in Providence, R.I., has identified a link between EHR usage and stress among physicians, reports the student newspaper, The Brown Daily Herald.