EHRs

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.

Epic registered with a new lobbying firm, Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas, according to a disclosure registered in April and reported May 15 by Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

The Department of Defense hoped to complete its $4.3 billion EHR modernization project by 2022, but an April 30 report evaluating of the system's first pilot sites shows the EHR is "neither operationally effective nor operationally suitable."

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