From being ordered to stand trial in a brain damage lawsuit to picking up several new hospital clients, here are 12 headlines about EHR vendor Oracle Cerner from the past month.
Category: Health IT
American Hospital Association urges DEA to extend telehealth prescribing rules
The American Hospital Association is asking the Drug Enforcement Administration to extend and clarify pandemic-era rules that allowed providers to prescribe addiction-treatment medications through telehealth.
10 Massachusetts health centers switch to Epic EHR with $5M grant
Ten Massachusetts health centers went live Dec. 1 with new Epic EHRs thanks to $5 million in federal funding from the American Rescue Plan.
Jefferson Health to migrate Epic EHR to Microsoft
Jefferson Health is migrating its Epic EHR system to Microsoft Azure in a bid to secure, improve and optimize IT service delivery.
Fenway Health swaps Athenahealth EHR with Epic
Boston-based Fenway Health went live Dec. 1 with a new Epic EHR.
Athenahealth launches clinical advisory board
EHR vendor Athenahealth has launched a clinical advisory board to serve as a forum providing feedback to improve EHR workflows for clinicians.
Kaiser Permanente’s big bet on remote diabetes monitoring pays off
As hospitals and health systems increasingly look to remotely monitor patients for a variety of chronic conditions, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is already tracking the diabetes of nearly 40,000 people from the comfort of their homes.
Meditech in the last 30 days
From piloting a clinical search tool with Google Health to partnering with new health systems, here are seven updates on Meditech’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in November.
8 health systems switching to a new EHR system
Here are eight health systems that went live or announced plans to go live with a new EHR system in November:
Oracle Cerner ordered to stand trial in brain damage lawsuit
A U.S. appeals court has ordered Oracle Cerner to stand trial in a lawsuit accusing the company’s software of causing a patient’s brain damage.
