Category: EHRs

A former medical assistant at Mansfield, La.-based Desoto Regional Health System has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining substances from the health system, The Shreveport Times reported Oct. 7. 

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Oracle Cerner EHR pharmacy services experienced an outage on Oct. 6, FedScoop reported Oct. 7. 

Aspen (Colo.) Valley Hospital went live with its $16 million Epic EHR installation on Oct. 1, according to Oct. 10 reporting in Aspen Daily News.

Meditech has expanded its Greenfield workspace to include two new collaborative environments that help third-party developers and customers test innovations within their EHRs.  

Epic has made changes to its sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy and make its alerts more meaningful to clinicians.

Winnsboro, La.-based Franklin Medical Center will receive $41,640 to upgrade its Oracle Cerner EHR system, The Franklin Sun reported Oct. 5. 

A new rule went into effect Oct. 6 that allows patients complete access to their electronic health records, without unreasonable delay or costs.

Omaha, Neb.-based Methodist Health System has extended its contract with EHR vendor Oracle Cerner for another 10 years.

Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare switched its EHR from Oracle Cerner to Epic on Oct. 1, joining several health systems that have gone to Epic this month.

Wisconsin Medicine, the philanthropic arm of UW Health and University of Wisconsin’s school of medicine and public health, is launching a workforce development initiative led by a “significant donation” from Epic.