Category: EHRs

St. Louis-based Mercy is spending $6.5 million to install Epic at its recently acquired Perryville, Mo.-based Perry County Memorial Hospital.

HHS and several health systems have been testing a way for patients to access all their electronic medical records using a single sign-in.

Clinicians who are highly satisfied with their EHRs tend to like their personalized tools and have taken the initiative to learn the systems, a March 24 KLAS Research study found.

As New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health switches from Allscripts to Epic, the health system is seeking candidates for 41 Epic-related roles, according to a search of Northwell’s website.

House Democratic lawmakers introduced a pair of bills that would overhaul the Veterans Affairs IT acquisition process, including one that would audit the Oracle Cerner EHR implementation, Fedscoop reported March 22.

While Oracle Cerner underwent a “mass” layoff recently, according to some affected employees, the company may not have been required to notify the government, Kansas City Business Journal reported March 23.

EHR vendor Oracle Cerner has conducted its second lay off as part of Oracle’s new “restructuring plan” that aims to save the company $927 million by the end of fiscal 2023.

Physicians will spend much of their time in the EHR system, and selecting the correct one is key to a practice’s success.

Boise, Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System implemented Meditech’s smart pump infusion integration into its Baxter Spectrum IQ infusion system so that the health system’s medical records and IV pumps can communicate electronically.

Even as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs transitions to a new Oracle Cerner EHR, it is moving its legacy system, VistA, to the cloud, ensuring it will be around for a while, Federal News Network reported.