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.

UnitedHealth Group said an EHR the health insurer plans to unveil in 2019 will serve 50 million health plan members, according to Forbes contributor Bruce Japsen.  

In a move that expands its budding presence in the healthcare space, Amazon is selling software that mines patient health records for information that helps physicians improve treatments and hospitals cut costs, The Wall Street Journal reports.

In 2011, athenahealth acquired a 387-acre property in Northport, Maine. Since then, the company has used the property, which overlooks a bay and is located on the side of a mountain, for public and private events and conferences, according to…

Hospitals that meet the highest federal standards for implementing EHRs experience shorter lengths of patient stays than those that do not, according to recent research.

Cedar County Memorial Hospital in El Dorado Springs, Mo., implemented the Meditech Expanse EHR system.

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The Veterans Affairs Department tacked $350 million on to its contract estimate for a new Cerner EHR, sending the total cost of its 10-year modernization project upwards of $16.1 billion, the Kansas City Business Journal reports.

Apple and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are reportedly in talks to put veterans' health records on their iPhones, people familiar with the matter and emails reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show.

CommonWell Health Alliance and The Sequoia Project have opened general availability of an integrated data exchange service they first announced in 2016.