EHRs

Columbia, Tenn.-based Maury Regional Health is going live on Cerner's EHR system Nov. 1.

UnitedHealth Group revealed plans to debut an EHR in 2019 for its members and for providers, CEO David Wichmann said on the company's third-quarter earnings call Oct. 16.

Allscripts expanded the senior leadership team for its payer and life sciences division with four new additions.

Two of the three major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices fall last week.

Cleveland (Okla.) Area Hospital implemented Cerner's EHR and revenue cycle solutions enterprisewide.

Four new hospitals have signed on to Apple's health records project since late September.

James Mattis, secretary of the Department of Defense, and Robert Wilkie, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, signed a joint statement Sept. 26 pledging to align their EHR strategies.

Surescripts, a national health information network, selected five EHR companies as winners of its 2018 Surescripts White Coat Award.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine plans to turn EHRs into clinical tools that expedite care and drive better patient outcomes, the health system said Oct. 10.

Biometric identification may be the most promising approach to patient matching, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts analysis of patient perspectives.