EHRs

James Hereford, the president and CEO of Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services, called Epic an "impediment to innovation" and told healthcare leaders they should exert more influence over the EHR giant, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

The Department of Veterans Affairs' legacy EHR — VistA — won't be going away anytime soon, even as the agency prepares its contract with Cerner, CIO Scott Blackburn said Tuesday at the AFCEA Health IT Day, according to FedScoop.

Kairoi Healthcare Strategies rolled out its clinic scheduling tool on athenahealth's marketplace, "More Disruption Please," the company announced Jan. 16.

The U.S. Department of Defense and Cerner will halt the agency's EHR rollout for roughly eight weeks beginning Jan. 16, according to the Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

Two analysts have released reports emphasizing the need for Cerner's new CEO to retain the company's veteran leadership, according to Kansas City Business Journal.

A third-party investigation commissioned by British Columbia, Canada, Minister of Health for Vancouver-Kingsway Adrian Dix concluded the Cerner EHR rollout at British Columbia-based Vancouver Island Health Authority should be temporarily halted, according to the Times Colonist.

DaVita, a Denver-based dialysis services provider, entered into a collaboration with Epic to add technological capabilities to DaVita Physician Solutions' chronic kidney disease EHR, DaVita announced Jan. 11.

A frozen roof drain backup at North Conway, N.H.-based Memorial Hospital caused flooding overnight at its medical office building, which damaged the hospital's computer data center and resulted in service interruptions, according to a post on Memorial Hospital's website.

CIOX Health filed a lawsuit Monday against HHS and Acting Secretary Eric Hargan in an effort to stop the agency from enforcing parts of HIPAA it deems "unlawfully, unreasonably, arbitrarily and capriciously" limit the fees providers and their business associates…

Providers must consider patient safety concerns associated with the overuse of copy-and-paste functions within EHRs, Shannon M. Dean, MD, chief medical information officer of Madison-based UW Health, wrote in an op-ed for the HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's…