Category: EHRs

Greenville, S.C.-based Prisma Health is expanding its partnership with virtual care company. HealthSnap.

Here are the hospitals and health systems that are implementing new EHR systems or extending EHR systems to other facilities due to mergers or acquisitions:

A circuit court ruled that it would not lower EHR vendor Epic Systems’ $140 million in compensatory damages that it is supposed to receive from Mumbai, India-based Tata Consultancy Services due to an ongoing trades secret case. 

In 2018, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs tapped Cerner to overhaul its EHR system. Recently, a series of slowdowns, legislative spats and open letters have again turned attention to the VA’s EHR overhaul process.

Epic, the nation’s largest EHR vendor, opposed some proposed changes by ONC that the agency says will improve interoperability, healthcare data exchange and health IT transparency.

CommonWell Health Alliance’s network surpassed 200 million individuals nationwide, which corresponds to sharing electronic health data for about 62 percent of the U.S. population.

Small, rural and safety-net hospitals across the U.S. are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding and community grants to purchase and install EHRs.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is pushing back against legislation that would require it to report codified improvement metrics for any new deployments of the Oracle Cerner EHR system, Washington Technology reported July 13. 

Community health organizations in Connecticut, North Carolina, Arizona and Idaho went live with Oregon Community Health Information Network Epic this quarter.

Epic Systems is working on streamlining communications between healthcare providers and insurance companies, as the vendor says the process is time-consuming, Wisconsin Public Radio reported July 12.