EHRs

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…

The Countess of Chester Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust —  the main hospital for Chester, England — signed a 15-year contract with Cerner to replace its existing Meditech EHR that has been in use since 1999, Digital Health reports.

After a communications outage struck Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, knocking out access to its EHR, a Medscape report shines light on the frequency of these events in healthcare and the need to prepare for them.

The American Medical Association introduced a new policy that will help ensure future physicians are properly trained on EHRs.