EHRs

Although it may only take 18 months for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to roll out the Cerner EHR once the contract is finalized, it will take another seven to eight years for the VA to fully transition away…

A bill that seeks to eliminate a provision that requires the HHS secretary to create more stringent measures of meaningful use over the years would have no significant financial impact if enacted into law, according to a Congressional Budget Office…

Greenway Health, a health IT solutions provider based in Carrollton, Ga., signed an agreement with Santa Monica, Calif.-based PatientPop to offer scheduling integration on its EHR and practice management system.

Rapid City, S.D.-based Regional Health deployed a systemwide Epic EHR Oct. 22, according to the health system's website.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is telling Congress its multi-billion dollar contract for a systemwide EHR with Cerner could be awarded within the first two weeks of November, extending beyond its original timeline, reports Politico Morning eHealth newsletter.

A team of UC San Francisco health informatics researchers analyzed EHR data from a three-year period to identify one source of Clostridium difficile, a common hospital-acquired infection.

A Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society subsidiary recognized San Jose, Calif.-based Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for its EMR initiatives.

Capterra, a service that helps businesses find the right software for their needs, ranked 20 EHR vendors on their total number of customers, users and social media presence.

The plurality of physicians — 34 percent — agree the No. 1 problem with EHR systems across the marketplace is lack of user-friendliness, according to a Medical Economics survey.

Fourteen percent of respondents from hospitals and clinics indicated they have "deep interoperability" when sharing data among different EMRs, up from 6 percent last year, according to a KLAS Research report.