EHRs

On May 5, Mayo Clinic's main campus in Rochester, Minn., completed one of the nation's largest Epic EHR implementations to date, according to HCI Group — the health IT consulting and technology solutions firm that aided Mayo Clinic in the…

The health IT industry is abuzz with rumors that athenahealth could sell itself after Elliot Management made an unsolicited bid for the EHR vendor in early May worth almost $7 billion — but Elliott Management may not be the only…

As a pediatrician, Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, could tell children in Flint, Mich., were being poisoned around the end of summer 2015, she wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times.

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

The future of electronic health record keeping is moving beyond a digital filing cabinet for patient records and becoming  a system that considers the whole patient picture, writes Josh Holzbauer, head of physician well-being for Epic, in a LinkedIn blog…

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis — in which the majority sided in favor of large corporations — some are now calling on Epic employees to unionize, writes journalist Alan Talaga…

South Carolina prisons will transition to an EHR developed by NextGen Healthcare by September, the Post and Courier reports.

UC San Diego Health launched capabilities to support OpenNotes, an international movement designed to encourage providers to share clinical notes with patients, in June.

Tupelo-based North Mississippi Health Services is implementing Epic's platform as its enterprise ambulatory EHR. Mercy Technology Services will assist with the implementation.

CMS is asking its stakeholders to submit potential measures to include in the Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program.