EHRs

What community hospitals need from an EHR — Allscripts Dr. Christopher Caggiano weighs in Sponsored by Allscripts Community hospitals face considerable challenges in today’s healthcare environment. Often operating under considerable margin pressure, these organizations must find ways to best meet…

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.

The Urbana-based University of Illinois Health board of trustees has voted to move forward in the contracting process for a $101 million Epic EHR implementation, the hospital confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic teamed up with National Decision Support Co., which develops clinical decision support solutions, to create CareSelect Lab.

Epic and Doximity, a social network for U.S. physicians and advanced practice clinicians, joined forces to improve patient-provider communication.

Allscripts certified Inflexxion's PainCAS as part of the Allscripts Developer Program. PainCAS is a pain and opioid risk assessment tool.

Tacoma, Wash.-based Madigan Army Medical Center will go live on the U.S. Department of Defense's EHR system, called MHS Genesis, Oct. 21, according to The Northwest Guardian.