EHRs

In a shareholders meeting one day after Cerner signed a $10 billion, 10-year deal to be the Veterans Affairs Department's new EHR vendor, Cerner President Zane Burke suggested reports that disparaged its work for the U.S. Defense Department were "fake…

The economic realities in the current healthcare environment often push leaders to focus on productivity and cost-cutting measures that all too often add to a physician's growing list of responsibilities despite their well-thought intentions.

The Sequoia Project, a nonprofit focused on healthcare interoperability, plans to alter its corporate structure during summer 2018.

Apple's potential to disrupt the medical records industry became more realistic after a Government Accountability Office probe highlighted the costly and complex barriers to obtaining patient health data, according to an analysis by CNBC news associate Anita Balakrishnan.

The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department finalized a contract with Cerner May 17, awarding the EHR vendor $10 billion over the next 10 years to put the VA on the same records system as the  U.S. Defense Department.

Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk, Neb., plans to implement the Epic EHR system, according to a Sandhills Express report.

In a May 15 letter to the Department of Veterans Affairs Deputy Secretary Thomas Bowman, congressional Democrats called  on the agency to fire acting CIO Camilo Sandoval over concerns of his involvement in the 2016 presidential campaign, according to the…

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic contracted with a health IT consulting firm to provide expert Epic trainers who would help with its massive EHR overhaul. However, a number of the temporary employees have left the project, citing mismanaged assignments, housing troubles…

Cerner entered into a collaborative agreement with Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation, a nonprofit that provides comprehensive rehabilitation data.

Despite a HIPAA-granted right to their own medical records, patients still struggle to easily access their data, according to a May Government Accountability Office audit.