EHRs

Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives plans on implementing the Epic EHR system in all the facilities in its CHI Memorial market with assistance from CTG.

Cerner recently invested $266 million in the parent company of Lumeris, a value-based care management provider, as part of a 10-year agreement to combine the companies' technologies and services to aid hospitals in the transition to value-based contracts.

Federal regulations have mandated hospitals adopt the EHR — and nearly all hospitals have — but determining whether EHR use has actually led to better patient outcomes is a challenge; however, a new study published in Health Affairs found a…

Speech recognition software may lessen physicians' documentation load, but the errors that frequently occur when using this tool, including clinically significant errors, could affect patient care, a study published in JAMA Network Open found.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and the Pennsylvania eHealth Partnership Program awarded nearly $8 million in grant funds to help health information organizations connect to the state's health information exchange.

The CMO, CIO and chief medical information officer at New Haven, Conn.-based Yale Medicine launched a set of successful initiatives across the health system to improve user experience with EHRs, according to a blog post on the AMA Wire.

Fort Madison (Iowa) Community Hospital has spent $2 million to implement an integrated EHR system.

Verona, Wis.-based Epic purchased the famous outdoor carousel and whimsical art from the historic Ella's Deli — a restaurant in Madison, Wis., that closed in January after 41 years, the Wisconsin State Journal reports.

One of the three major publicly-traded EHR vendors saw its stock price fall last week.

The Seattle-based UW Medicine Finance and Asset Management Committee approved a $180 million plan for a 30-monthslong endeavor to replace its Cerner and Epic EHRs with a single, integrated platform.