EHRs

A contract dispute between Austin (Texas) Regional Clinic and UnitedHealthcare will leave about 5,000 patients with UnitedHealthcare AARP Medicare Advantage plans searching for new physicians or new insurance plans next year.

DrChrono added new features to its free application programming interface, which allows customers and developers to create third-party apps that work with the EHR vendor's platform.

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

CareCloud, a provider of practice management and EHR software, will use Google Cloud's healthcare application programming interfaces to expand its cloud-based platform.

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.

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to open bidding for a five-year contract to maintain the IT and data services of VistA, the agency's homegrown EHR, according to FedScoop.

Stanford Medicine in California released a white paper on the future of EHRs, recommending key action items medical practices, payers, regulators and technologists should consider to improve the technology within the next decade.

Meditech launched an app development environment, dubbed Greenfield, Sept. 18.

Shares of athenahealth dropped 11 percent Sept. 18, after a report revealed Paul Singer's activist firm Elliott Management rescinded its $160-a-share takeover bid for the cloud-based health technology company, CNBC reports.

More than one-third of physicians say activities related to documentation are the tasks they would most prefer not to do or to have improved, according to a Deloitte report.