EHRs

Albuquerque, N.M.-based Lovelace Health System launched an Epic EMR across all clinics and hospitals Aug. 25.

Cerner revealed the roster for its advisory group on veterans healthcare Sept. 5.

Cerner teamed up with Birmingham, Ala.-based HealthSouth Corp., a provider of post-acute services, to establish a post-acute innovation center.

Jeanne Lillig-Patterson, 59, co-founder of the pediatric healthcare nonprofit First Hand Foundation, died Sept. 4 after an ongoing battle with breast, bone and brain cancer, The Kansas City Star reports.

Hospital operations at various facilities took a hit in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which struck the Texas coast Aug. 25.

The National Cancer Institute awarded a team of researchers from Intermountain Healthcare, University of Utah Health and Huntsman Cancer Institute, all based in Salt Lake City, a $3.8 million grant to develop a cancer screening tool.

Hospital operations at various facilities took a hit in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which battered the east coast of Texas Friday.

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center deployed a solution from NextGate, a provider of patient and provider identification solutions, to help manage provider information.

Cerner entered into a strategic partnership with DoseMe, allowing Cerner EHR users to use real-time precision dosing software, DoseMeRx, within the platform.

Under HIPAA, patients are granted the right to access their medical data, but some find this data hard to access, confusing to interpret or harmful to the patient-physician relationship.