EHRs / Interoperability

Nearly 10 years after the passage of legislation meant to spur health IT adoption, EHRs have undergone a rapid evolution.

A study published in BMJ Quality & Safety examined the potential harm associated with EHR clinical decision support alert overrides in the intensive care unit.

EHR vendor DrChrono will offer Apple leasing bundle plans for physicians and other medical professionals as a low-cost effort to combine their EHR with modern Apple hardware.

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

Epic restructured its home page April 1 to advertise an unconventional resource to promote staff well-being — IT support dogs.

Hospitals and health systems were  slightly more likely to use Cerner's 2015 Certified EHR Technology than Epic's when attesting to Medicare's EHR Incentive Program between 2011 and 2016, according to recently released data from HHS' ONC.

A number of reported safety events blame an EHR vendor or product for potentially contributing to patient harm, according to a study published March 27 in JAMA and reported by The American Journal of Managed Care.

Leadership at Odessa, Texas-based Ector Hospital District, which does business as the Medical Center Health System, attributed a recent bond downgrade to costs associated with its EMR implementation, the Odessa American reports.

HIMSS penned a letter March 20 to U.S. Department of Veterans Secretary David J. Shulkin, MD, to voice its support for a proposed rule easing the process for sharing medical records between VA facilities and community providers.

In a letter to CMS, the American Academy of Family Physicians urged the agency to rethink who should be financially responsible for providing new federally-mandated EHR updates.