EHRs

Cerner CEO and Chairman Brent Shafer revealed details of the EHR vendor's newest suite of solutions, dubbed the "opioid toolkit," during a keynote address Oct. 9 at the annual Cerner Health Conference in Kansas City, Mo.

The Trump administration has planned 60 hours of downtime maintenance for the federal health insurance exchange — Healthcare.gov — during the 2019 open-enrollment period, which runs from Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, according to The Hill.

Allscripts plans to integrate information from various state-regulated electronic prescription drug monitoring programs into its EHR systems through a partnership with Appriss Health.

eClinicalWorks has integrated with CMS' Blue Button 2.0, an open application programming interface tool.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic completed its "Plummer Project," the name given to its systemwide rollout of a new Epic EHR, the health system confirmed Oct. 8.

The U.S. Defense Department began testing its new Cerner EHR at a second set of pilot sites — five months after a government watchdog report deemed the new system "not operationally effective" and lacking "enough workable functionality," according to the…

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

Cerner recognized five providers as "physician all-stars" at its Cerner Physician Community meeting Oct. 7-8, an event within the EHR vendor's annual Cerner Health Conference.

President Donald Trump signed the Veterans Affairs Department appropriations bill (HR 5895) on Sept. 21, which includes a provision mandating that the agency decide the fate of a patient-scheduling project within 90 days, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

The Veterans Affairs Department appointed Paul Tibbits, MD, to a key leadership post charged with overseeing its EHR modernization project, shortly after Cerner unveiled its team of 24 technology businesses tasked with supporting the project on Oct. 3.