EHRs

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to June 2018 ONC data.

Cerner has established a team of 24 technology businesses to support its work with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

UnityPoint Health-Marshalltown (Iowa) implemented the Epic EMR system in mid-September.

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

RCM company nThrive has proposed a merger with athenahealth, the healthcare technology company that's been in talks for months that it may sell itself, according to the New York Post.

Athenahealth has reportedly received multiple offers from organizations seeking to acquire the health IT company, sources told CNBC.

Conway, N.H.-based Memorial Hospital will launch a new Epic EHR Dec. 1, swapping its three disparate systems for one and putting it on the same platform as its parent health system MaineHealth, The Conway Daily Sun reports.

Cerner has set up a new office in Rosslyn, Va., for staff working on its EHR modernization contracts with the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments, according to ARLnow.

Memorial Regional Health in Craig, Colo., will use a newly announced affiliation with SCL Health St. Mary's Regional Health System to invest in a new Epic EHR, a deal expected to save the hospital about $5 million over the next…

After an EHR implementation, it takes an average of six months for some healthcare organizations to return to normal efficiency, according to a study published Sept. 19 in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.