EHRs

CBS aired a new episode of its documentary TV series "Whistleblower" Aug. 17, which described the New York City Health Department worker who found serious flaws in eClinicalWorks' EHR.

All three major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw their stock prices rise last week.

Cerner will take over the IT department at Medical Center Health System in Odessa, Texas, under an agreement the Ector County Hospital District board of directors approved Aug. 16, according to OA online.

Providers who adhere to clinical decision support alerts embedded in EHRs report better clinical outcomes for their patients than those who don't, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.

Rockford, Ill.-based SwedishAmerican implemented an Epic EHR July 1.

U.S. News & World Report released its Best Hospitals rankings for 2018-19 on Aug. 14, and Becker's Hospital Review looked into which EHRs the top 20 institutions are using — across the board, the answer was Epic.  

The CDC released its first national estimates of how office-based physicians are electronically sharing patient health information with other providers Aug. 15.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma hinted at one of her goals for the future of healthcare during the agency's Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference Aug. 13  in Washington, D.C., according to FedScoop.

Eighty of Central Maine Healthcare's 300 physicians have left the Lewistown-based organization this past fiscal year, which ended in June, one month after its three hospitals issued votes of no confidence in system CEO Jeff Brickman. But, Mr. Brickman thinks…

Allscripts has reached a new milestone, reporting more than 4 billion data shares through its application programming interfaces since the company began counting these exchanges in 2013.