EHRs

Cerner President Zane Burke noted during an Oct. 26 earnings call the company plans to pursue additional EHR contracts at a range of government agencies, FCW reports.

Only a few providers (25 percent) strongly agree that their EHR helped position their organization for the new health economy, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center is preparing for a Thursday Epic go-live.

Drchrono — a provider of EHR, practice management, revenue cycle management and healthcare application programming interface platforms for iPhones — unveiled a specialty EHR for urgent care practices Oct. 26.

Epic approved DocASAP, an appointment scheduling solution provider, for the App Orchard, DocASAP announced Oct. 24.

Tacoma, Wash.-based MultiCare Health System is investing $25 million in a new Epic EHR to be implemented next year in its Spokane, Wash., locations, according to the Spokane Journal of Business.

Ilwaco, Wash.-based Ocean Beach Hospital & Medical Clinics deployed a systemwide Epic EHR and MyChart patient portal Oct. 21, the Chinook Observer reports.

General Electric is reportedly exploring divesting its healthcare and transportation businesses, Reuters reports.

Cerner is slowly working with outside developers to integrate third party apps and a suite of tools on its EHR platforms, according to Kansas City Business Journal.

The Alliance of Specialty Medicine, a group representing more than 100,000 specialty physicians from 13 specialty and subspecialty societies, urged CMS to stay on course with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System in a letter to Francis Crosson, MD, chairman of…