Category: EHRs

A U.S. appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit in Puerto Rico against Allscripts, but noted that the EHR vendor is open to being sued in the U.S. territory, Law360 reported Aug. 8.

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Oracle Cerner EHR system suffered a three-hour outage on Aug. 4 resulting in downtime and delays to VA patient databases, FedScoop reported Aug. 5. 

Greenbrae, Calif.-based MarinHealth Medical Center’s new EHR system called APeX went live at the health system Aug. 8. 

Health data interoperability has long been a goal of health IT executives and policy experts. But it’s 2022 — and the healthcare system doesn’t appear all that close to getting there.

Allscripts will focus on payers and life sciences companies after selling its hospital and large physician practices division, CEO Rick Poulton announced in an earnings call Aug. 4. 

Below are four health systems that launched a new Epic EHR system or announced plans to do so since June 16.

Prescriptions for the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone have increased dramatically at Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine since the health system put a prescribing reminder in its Epic EHR, the vendor said in an Aug. 1 report.

Wallingford, Conn.-based Gaylord Specialty Healthcare is installing the Meditech EHR system, which will cost $7.6 million, according to July 27 reporting on myrecordjournal.com.

Oracle Cerner is partnering with Perceptive Solutions to add wound care data to Cerner’s EHR.

Healthcare information technology company Allscripts has partnered with electronic health record referral company ReferralPoint as part of the Allscripts Developer Program.