Epic registered with a new lobbying firm, Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas, according to a disclosure registered in April and reported May 15 by Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.
EHRs / Interoperability
The Department of Defense hoped to complete its $4.3 billion EHR modernization project by 2022, but an April 30 report evaluating of the system's first pilot sites shows the EHR is "neither operationally effective nor operationally suitable."
All three major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices rise last week.
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…
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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.