EHRs

Epic CEO Judy Faulkner, clad in a burgundy and gold wizard robe and hat, delivered her executive address before a crowd of nearly 13,000 at Epic's annual Users Group Meeting Sept. 26, reports The Cap Times.

Affirmant Health Partners, a Portage, Mich.-based clinically integrated network, signed an agreement to implement Epic's Healthy Planet Constellation Sept. 12, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

ISalus Healthcare, an EHR, practice management, medical billing services and telehealth company, partnered with OptimizeRx Corp., integrating its cloud-based solution into iSalus' EHR.

PeraHealth, a predictive clinical surveillance solutions provider, joined Epic's App Orchard. This move allows PeraHealth to use application programming interfaces that enable integration into Epic's EHR platform.

Midland-based MidMichigan Health is deploying its Epic EHR system at MidMichigan Medical Center-Alpena and its physician offices throughout the Alpena area.

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration awarded its Dialysis EMR Software and Maintenance EHR Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract to health IT provider Document Storage Systems and medical software company Cybernius Medical.

Wright Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital in Trenton, Mo., is moving its EMR to Epic, reports KTTN News.

British Columbia, Canada, Minister of Health Adrian Dix ordered a second independent review of a controversial Cerner EHR implementation at British Columbia-based Vancouver Island Health Authority, the Vancouver Sun reports.

Sixty-eight percent of administrators and clinicians using the McKesson Paragon EHR don't believe Allscripts' acquisition of the company will improve or worsen the EHR system, according to a KLAS Research report.