EHRs

$4 billion, $1.5 billion, $1.2 billion, $1.0 billion and $700 million. Excluding government contracts, these are among the five largest EMR price tags on record over the last two and a half years. That's four implementations weighing in at more than…

The majority of patients indicate physicians' use of EHRs has had a positive (56 percent) or very positive (20 percent) impact on their health, according to a Select Hub report.

All hospitals affiliated with Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare — save for Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton, Ill. — will no longer be in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois' preferred provider organization.

The majority of medical professionals — 86 percent — agree EHRs make it easier to provide services and care to patients, according to a Select Hub report.

Atlanta-based Azalea Health merged with Houston-based Prognosis Innovation Healthcare Aug. 31 to establish an EHR that will serve rural and community hospitals.

Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth will offer Linden, Utah-based HIPAA One security risk analysis software as an optional line-item on their monthly invoice in an effort to provide greater value and simple billing.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center signed an agreement granting in-network status to Cigna policyholders buying coverage on the 2018 ACA exchange.

eClinicalWorks released an EHR capability to improve patient access to physician notes, the company announced Oct. 10.

HIMSS Analytics, a subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, launched an app for its health IT market intelligence platform, the organization announced Oct. 9.

Nuance Communications, a voice and language solutions provider, ranked as the No. 1 end-to-end healthcare coding, clinical documentation improvement, transcription and speech recognition technology solution, according to a Black Book report.