EHRs / Interoperability

With 17 percent of the global market share, Cerner is the most used EMR, according to Kalorama Information's annual EMR industry report.

Including nonessential, "stigmatizing" notes in a patient's health record may lead them to receive inadequate care in the future, according to a study out of Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and published in the Journal of General Internal…

The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration in Indianapolis will transition its state-run inpatient psychiatric facilities from its current systems to Cerner's EHR, the health IT vendor confirmed May 9.

Nurses ranked Cerner the top inpatient EHR for the third year in a row in Black Book Research's annual nursing satisfaction surveys.

Four Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health medical centers received Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Analytics Stage 7 awards — the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption Model.

Department of Veterans Affairs Interim Secretary Robert Wilkie plans to award Cerner an estimated $16 billion contract for the agency's EHR modernization project by May 28, the Kansas City Business Journal reports.

The nearly 2,200 consultants visiting Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic to help in its $1.5 billion IT modernization efforts, which include its transition to a new Epic EHR, are causing parking issues for hospital employees, according to Post Bulletin.

Northern Valley Indian Health in California will swap out its current EHR for a system from eClinicalWorks, the health IT vendor confirmed May 9.

Even before EHRs became physicians' No. 1 frustration, physicians were just as burnt out as they are today, according to a comparison of contemporary studies with one from The Kaiser Family Foundation in 2002.

U.S.-based physicians spend much more time jotting down patients' clinical notes than physicians practicing overseas, according to research published in an editorial for theAnnals of Internal Medicine.