EHRs

In less than a year, more than 100 hospitals and clinics have joined Apple's health records project.

It's time to cut unnecessary work from the EHR, according to a perspective in The New England Journal of Medicine by Melinda Ashton, MD, a physician with Hawaii Pacific Health in Honolulu.

The majority of cancer patients said open access to their physician notes improved their understanding of their diagnoses and treatments, according to a study published in Practical Radiation Oncology.

The Department of Veterans Affairs' EHR contract with Cerner has been plagued by multiple roadblocks during the past year, including personnel issues and changing expectations, according to a ProPublica investigation.

A plumbers union in Chicago has selected Cerner to manage a new health center, where the group's members and their families will be able to access healthcare services as part of their union benefits.

Epic ranked as the No. 1 EMR vendor for customer satisfaction based on survey data from providers across the globe, according to a KLAS Research report.

Computer Services Corp. has agreed to pay $389,355 to settle U.S. Justice Department allegations that it falsely claimed it had met requirements for a new EMR system at U.S. Energy Department occupational health clinics in Washington state, the Tri-City Herald…

For many Americans, daylight saving time offers an extra hour of sleep. But for hospital staffers, it poses an annual problem, as some EHR systems haven't figured out how to handle the time change smoothly, according to Kaiser Health News.

Logansport (Ind.) Memorial Hospital is implementing the Cerner EHR system to replace the two systems the hospital currently has in place, according to a Pharos-Tribune report.

Most provider organizations offer patients the option to access test results from an online portal, according to the 2018 HealthCare's Most Wired survey, which the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives released Oct. 31.