TIFTON, Ga., April 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tift Regional Health System (TRHS) has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care, to implement an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management system across its acute and ambulatory facilities.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 11, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- North Memorial Health Care, an Accountable Care Organization named a Best Hospital on Healthgrades 2015 Americas 50 Best Hospitals list, provides comprehensive access to imaging critical to patient care by enlisting Vital Images, Inc.’s, (Vital’s) VitreaView® enterprise viewer software. Integrated with its Epic EMR and EpicCare Link, VitreaView software is aimed to support relationships between referring physicians, clinicians and patients, with fast access to patient imaging.

Military Health System (MHS) officials say the Department of Defense's new EHR will be called MHS GENESIS and will launch at the end of calendar year 2016.   

Primary care physicians receive an average of 76.9 notifications per day in commercial EHR systems, according to an article published in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

The costs associated with implementing an Epic EMR has lead to the lay off of 95 Southcoast Health employees. 

Cerner could be facing a class action lawsuit over lack of overtime pay, according to multiple reports coming out of Kansas, City, Mo., the health IT vendor's home base.

The patient’s story is the core of medicine and essential for accurate diagnoses and therapeutic relationships, but it's falling by the wayside, according to Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP, a resident physician at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that all patient data kept by healthcare providers generated in the process of a patient's treatment and pertains to the patient's medical history, diagnosis, prognosis or medical condition is a medical record.