EHRs

It was a year of cost-saving moves and leadership restructuring efforts for athenahealth in 2017.

Allscripts enjoyed a year of acquisitions, top rankings and executives making waves.

Vice President and Chief Quality Officer of Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare Brent James, MD, has a vision of the next-generation EHR that better meets physicians' needs than the current market, according to NEJM Catalyst.

Inspired in part by a site visit to a Minnesota hospital, Epic is working to integrate comprehensive social care into its EHR.

Four of the top vendors hospitals use to attest to the meaningful use program are Allscripts, Cerner, Epic and Meditech, according to June 2016 ONC data.

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., introduced legislation Dec. 11 that would improve patients' access to their health records, according to The Ripon Advance.

The American Medical Informatics Association and The Pew Charitable Trusts penned a letter Dec. 15 to four U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives urging support for the EHR reporting program.

Here are 10 of the costliest EHR contracts and go-lives reported by Becker's Hospital Review during 2017.

The Department of Veterans Affairs published its EHR requirements in preparation for awarding its estimated $10 billion EHR contract to Cerner.

From costly implementations and earning top rankings to new or expanded contracts and lawsuits, headlines about Verona, Wis.-based Epic have continued to grab the attention of those in the healthcare industry.