EHRs

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

Athenahealth co-founder and former CEO Jonathan Bush called out activist investment firm Elliott Management for its role in influencing the sale of the company during an interview with CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Dec. 12.

Aetna reached an agreement to improve its provider directories after a Massachusetts attorney general investigation uncovered inaccuracies in its network information, according to The Boston Globe.

Allscripts is selling its stake in Netsmart, a developer of behavioral health, human services and post-acute care technologies, for over $500 million, the Chicago-based health IT company confirmed Dec. 10.

Patients often struggle to have errors in their medical records corrected, according to a recent CNBC report.

Amazon's new EHR-mining might be what the healthcare industry needs to make big data a reality, a GlobalData analyst told Digital Health Age.

Beatrice (Neb.) Community Hospital and Health Center deployed the Epic EHR platform Dec. 1.

Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston partnered with Korean blockchain startup MediBloc to explore using the blockchain to store and share patient health information, according to CoinDesk.

The American University of Beirut Medical Center went live on an Epic EHR Nov. 3, making it the first organization in Lebanon to use Epic.

EHR-related burnout hits some physician specialties more than others, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.