EHRs

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

Utica, N.Y.-based Mohawk Valley Health System plans to replace the five EHR systems it uses with a single Epic EHR, the Observer-Dispatch reports.

Cerner and the Duke Clinical Research Institute developed a cardiac risk app through the Cerner Open Developer Experience, the EHR vendor confirmed Aug. 23.

Genevieve Morris, chief health information officer in charge of the Cerner transition at the Veterans Affairs Department, posted her resignation letter addressed to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie and HHS Secretary Alex Azar on Twitter Aug. 24, effective immediately.

Epic clients: Prepare your camping gear and s'mores ingredients because Epic kicks off its 2018 Users Group Meeting  Aug. 27 at its Verona, Wis.-based headquarters, and this year's theme is "The Great Outdoors."

Google has a idea it thinks will improve physicians' EHR documentation processes, according to a research paper cited in the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

Montgomery (W.Va.) General Hospital, a 25 bed-critical access facility, signed the first Meditech cloud-based subscription for its Expanse enterprise health record, which was announced in November 2017.

Franciscan Health's emergency department in Indianapolis deployed a smartphone app from the New York City-based startup Twiage in July to streamline communication with local emergency medical services agencies and ambulance companies.

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Less than 20 percent of the ONC's guidelines for EHR safety are fully implemented across healthcare organizations, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.