EHRs

Most provider organizations can integrate data from external hospitals into their EHR, according to the 2018 HealthCare's Most Wired survey, which the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives released Oct. 31.

Allscripts has released its earnings results for the third quarter of 2018.

Travis Dalton, president of government services at Cerner, outlined early results and next steps for the EHR vendor's contracts with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs in an Oct. 30 blog post.

Osage Beach, Mo.-based Lake Regional Health System is partnering with Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care to share the Cerner EHR.

Five months before the Department of Veterans Affairs awarded Cerner $10 billion to overhaul its EHR system, the agency enlisted Mitre Corp. to review its preliminary contract, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

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.

LabCorp, a network of clinical testing laboratories, has joined Apple's Health Records project.

NYC Health + Hospitals launched an Epic EMR at one hospital and 10 community health centers and neighborhood clinics in Brooklyn, marking the next step in the New York City-based health system's systemwide IT platform rollout.

Allscripts is adding RxBenefit Clarity, a real-time benefit check tool, to its EHR platforms.

Nearly all (93 percent) of acute care hospitals have upgraded to or plan to adopt the most recent EHR standards, according to an ONC analysis.