Category: Health IT

Athenahealth adds Nuance to its digital marketplace

Athenahealth added Nuance’s Dragon Ambient eXperience to its digital marketplace.

Boston Children’s Hospital inks deal to innovate, scale pediatric telehealth

Boston Children’s Hospital partnered with virtual care platform Summus Global to innovate and expand its pediatric virtual care options to more patients.

Cerner’s net earnings increase 20% in Q1: 3 details

Cerner reported $206.1 million in net earnings for the first quarter of 2022, up 20 percent from $172.3 million during the same period last year. 

Allscripts completes sale of hospital business segment

Allscripts completed the sale of the net assets of its business segment for hospitals and large physician practices to N. Harris Computer Corp., a subsidiary of Constellation Software on May 2.

Idaho health system creates telehealth program to treat patients with burn injuries

Driggs, Idaho-based Teton Valley Health Hospital created a telehealth program designed for patients with burn injuries.

VA completes 3rd Cerner EHR launch

The Department of Veterans Affairs on April 30 launched a new Cerner EHR at the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus.

Telehealth users more likely to have follow-up in-person appointment, emergency department visit

A study of more than 40 million Americans with acute conditions showed that those who use telehealth are more likely to schedule an in-person follow up, go to the emergency room and ultimately become an in-patient admission. 

Indiana health system to implement Epic’s EHR system

Audubon County (Ind.) Memorial Hospital and its associated clinics will transition its current electronic health record system to Epic’s EHR system.

Cerner in the news: 11 April updates

From the latest update on its pending Oracle acquisition to new leadership appointments, here are 11 updates on Cerner’s operations, software products and partnerships reported by Becker’s Hospital Review in April.

At US Hospitals, a Drug Mix-Up Is Just a Few Keystrokes Away

After a Tennessee nurse killed a patient because of a drug error, the companies behind hospital medication cabinets said they’d make the devices safer. But did they?