EHRs / Interoperability

Epic approved Health Navigator's natural language processing application for its App Orchard, Health Navigator confirmed May 22.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society released an educational resource to keep hospital executives up-to-date on national health information exchange developments and interoperability initiatives.

Included in a batch of veterans-related bills the House passed May 22 is the Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act (H.R.4245), which would require the agency to regularly update Congress on the progress of its massive EHR modernization project,…

Epic installations require months of prep work before a go-live, and even with plenty of training hours, organizations can still face unforeseen challenges during and after the implementation, according to a blog post by Arron Fu on uniprint.net.

Columbus Regional Healthcare System in Whiteville, N.C., will deploy Cerner's Millennium EHR and revenue cycle solutions.

Emergency contact information housed in EHRs may be able to help predict a patient's risk for various hereditary conditions, according to a study published in the journal Cell.

Allscripts closed its acquisition of mobile patient engagement company HealthGrid Holding Co., the EHR vendor confirmed May 21.

Recording medical conversations between physicians and patients can alleviate problematic record-keeping and improve patient treatment adherence. However, the growing practice is being both eased and complicated by smartphone technology and artificial intelligence, prompting questions about safe data usage, according to…

In a 5-4 decision led by the conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, Epic came out victorious in a case involving individual employee arbitration decided May 21.

All three of the major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices rise last week.