EHRs

HHS' ONC is working to reduce administrative burdens for physicians to meet the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act, the National Coordinator for Health IT Don Rucker, MD, wrote in an agency blog post.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions is working with Israeli patient safety solutions developer MedAware to provide medication-related decision support at the point of care, MedAware confirmed June 19.

DrChrono incorporated credit card processing services from Square into its EHR platform to streamline patient payments, DrChrono confirmed June 19.

Greenway Health is teaming up with Qardio, a digital health company, to integrate Qardio's remote monitoring platform with its EHR and practice management solutions.

The U.K.-based Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust's board has approved a £42m (roughly $55 million) clinical transformation program dubbed My Care, which includes the implementation of an Epic EHR, the hospital confirmed June 6.

HealthlinkNY, which operates one of New York state's health information exchanges, will offer $76,000 in discounts to encourage providers to fully connect and contribute data to the HIE, HealthlinkNY announced June 15.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is looking for ways to store patient data on blockchain, a decentralized, digital ledger that promises enhanced security, and the provider has signed a joint working agreement with the London-based startup Medicalchain.

CMS is proposing a new rule that would require hospitals participating in Medicare to electronically share medically necessary information with other providers when a patient is transferred or discharged.

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

The Waco-based Heart of Texas Community Health Center has been providing primary healthcare services to the neediest members of our community in McLennan County since 1970. We've come a long way since our inception — I remember installing early software…