EHRs

After the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision May 21 in a case brought by Epic that ruled arbitration agreements can legally bar employees from pursuing class action lawsuits,  a different class action lawsuit against Epic regarding overtime wage…

Epic is denying the main allegation in Cerner's protest that claimed there was a conflict of interest in the EHR contracting process at the Chicago-based University of Illinois Health, which awarded Epic a $62 million, seven-year deal in late 2017…

Epic's website isn't just for news on EHRs. In a section titled "From Our Kitchen," which is promoted on the right-hand side of the software vendor's website, Epic features various recipes for soups, ribs and desserts.

Meditech filed its earnings results for the first quarter of 2018 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission April 30.

Epic approved Health Navigator's natural language processing application for its App Orchard, Health Navigator confirmed May 22.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society released an educational resource to keep hospital executives up-to-date on national health information exchange developments and interoperability initiatives.

Included in a batch of veterans-related bills the House passed May 22 is the Veterans' Electronic Health Record Modernization Oversight Act (H.R.4245), which would require the agency to regularly update Congress on the progress of its massive EHR modernization project,…

Epic installations require months of prep work before a go-live, and even with plenty of training hours, organizations can still face unforeseen challenges during and after the implementation, according to a blog post by Arron Fu on uniprint.net.

Columbus Regional Healthcare System in Whiteville, N.C., will deploy Cerner's Millennium EHR and revenue cycle solutions.

Emergency contact information housed in EHRs may be able to help predict a patient's risk for various hereditary conditions, according to a study published in the journal Cell.