Category: EHRs

A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs official said the rollout of the Oracle Cerner EHR could be delayed further because of its research functionality and academic affiliations, FedScoop reported Feb. 22.

After scouring more than 373,000 diagnoses in EHRs, researchers at Epic found that the COVID-19-induced drop in cancer screenings did not lead to a significant spike in breast, cervical or colon cancer cases.

State funding for an Epic EHR at Augusta University’s Medical College of Georgia was cut from $105 million to $50 million, WRDW reported Feb. 21. 

Researchers from Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland-based MetroHealth System are using a $3.14 million grant to create “digital twins” from EHR data to reduce health disparities.

Miami-based Nicklaus Children’s Hospital renewed its Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Stage Seven award, a designation that was given to the pediatric hospital for the effective use of its Oracle Cerner EHR.

Pacific Dental Services and High Point (N.C.) University are partnerting to expand the use of the Epic EHR system to the university’s dental school and associated dental practices.

Health system interoperability is seeing improvement, as 88 percent of organizations report that they are involved in an EHR data exchange, according to a January report from ONC. 

Here are hospitals and health systems that have implemented new EHR systems or announced plans to do so since Dec. 30:

More than 7 in 10 healthcare organizations use EHRs to collect information on social determinants of health, but more standardization is needed to fully realize the potential of this data collection, according to a February report from the American Hea…

Livonia, Mich.-based Trinity Health made a huge investment in a platform dubbed TogetherCare, powered by Epic, and for good reason.