EHRs

Gallipolis, Ohio-based Holzer Health System went live on athenahealth's athenaOne EHR, practice management and care coordination solution July 1, The Daily Sentinel reports.

The ONC released a funding opportunity notice in late June to support projects addressing barriers to the development and advancement of interoperable health IT.

The Government Accountability Office released a report June 26 on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' impending transition to a Cerner EHR.

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

The Department of Veterans Affairs has the option to terminate its contract with Epic and Leidos for a $624 million patient scheduling system, despite early success at an Ohio VA facility, according to Politico.

After more than three years of litigation, North Kansas City, Mo.-based EHR vendor Cerner has agreed to pay a $4.5 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to pay employees overtime wages, Missouri Lawyers Weekly and KCUR…

Mining unstructured notes in the EHR could help physicians and nurses more easily recognize signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other kinds of dementia, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Alliance (Ohio) Community Hospital deployed CommonWell interoperability services via its Meditech EHR.

MTBC, a provider of cloud-based health IT solutions and services, integrated blockchain technology into its EHR to further interoperability and secure storage of medical information.

Saint Louis-based Mercy Technology Services is the IT arm of Aurora, Mo.-based Mercy health system. However, its services aren't just in-house — it also provides application management and consulting services to healthcare organizations nationwide.