EHRs / Interoperability

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.

At its Google I/O 2018 conference, CEO Sundar Pichai shared how Google is betting on artificial intelligence to sort through the vast amounts of data in EMRs and predict better health outcomes, according to ZDNet.

Meditech Holdings on May 8 unveiled plans to launch Meditech UK, an entity focused on supporting customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit focused on healthcare interoperability, unveiled plans to spearhead a nationwide health IT disasters response platform May 7.

Epic approved Excel Medical's patient surveillance and predictive algorithm platform for its App Orchard, Excel Medical confirmed May 8.