EHRs / Interoperability

Ever since Danbury-based Western Connecticut Health Network switched EHR software systems March 3 to Cerner — after dedicating nearly two years to preparation — patients have been complaining about problems reaching physicians, scheduling appointments and accessing other services, according to…

The ONC named two winners of its health data provenance challenge March 13.

After U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD, delayed awarding the agency's EHR contract to Cerner, some questioned whether Epic would challenge the deal, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

A group of experts at the UC San Francisco Center for Digital Health Innovation are pushing for what they call a connected health record amid the debate on whether the EHR should instead be a comprehensive health record.

Many American healthcare consumers have no idea where their medical data is kept, which is concerning in an era where data breaches occur at alarming rates, according to a recent ScalaMed survey.

Nearly 80 percent of providers close patient files within 72 hours of an encounter, according to the Medical Group Management Association's latest Stat poll.

Cerner, which lost out on an EHR contract at Chicago-based University of Illinois Health in late 2017, claims the hospital's contract with Epic will cost taxpayers nearly $100 million in excess costs, according to NBC Chicago.

Forty-four percent of U.S. residents have accessed their EHR, while 32 percent say they do not have an EHR, according to Accenture's 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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

Medsphere Systems Corp., is taking its CareVue EHR to Amazon Web Services, the company announced March 8.