Category: EHRs

A U.S. senator from Washington state is demanding the VA pause the upcoming EHR rollout at a Walla Walla medical center following the release of three reports that highlighted safety concerns in Spokane. 

Below are five organizations that announced plans to implement an EHR or deployed a new EHR since Jan. 26.

Emporia, Kan.-based Newman Regional Health will extend its Meditech EHR system to a nearby critical access hospital.

Oracle announced its agreement to acquire Cerner in December, but the deal has yet to officially close as pending shareholder and regulatory approval continues to halt the deal.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has selected Laurel Bridge Software to support its transition to the Cerner EHR, the imaging software company said March 15.

Cerner is integrating Nuance’s Dragon Ambient eXperience into its Millennium EHR, the companies announced March 16 at the HIMSS Global Health Conference and Exhibition.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare on March 14 became the first organization in the world to achieve triple stage 7 under the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s new requirements.

The National Institutes of Health is developing a data-sharing tool to make maternal health data more accessible, NextGov reported March 14. 

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho-based Kootenai Health has implemented Epic’s electronic health record system after 12 months of technical configuration.

Google Health and Meditech plan to integrate Care Studio, an EHR search tool, into the vendor’s web-based EHR platform.