By Hannah Nelson
May 17, 2023 – Clinician EHR documentation time went down slightly following changes to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) coding requirements, according to a research letter…
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By Hannah Nelson
May 10, 2023 – House legislators pressed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials and Oracle executives during a hearing Tuesday regarding problems with the pharmacy features of the agency’s new Oracle Cerner EHR…
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Hackers breach the systems of NextGen Healthcare and access the information of one million patients, according to a filed breach report.
The company says that its cloud-based NextGen Office EHR/PM was accessed using…
By Hannah Nelson
April 28, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) experienced a systemwide outage of its Oracle Cerner EHR earlier this week, according to reporting from Federal News Network.
The outage impacted the…
By Hannah Nelson
April 27, 2023 – House lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation that would reform the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) EHR Modernization (EHRM) program if passed into law, according to reporting from FedScoop.
Since 2020, VA…
On Monday, Rep. Mike Takano, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and the committee’s Chairman Mike Bost, R-Ill., introduced companion legislation to the EHR Program RESET Act of 2023 offered…
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By Hannah Nelson
April 26, 2023 – Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) is calling for the termination of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Oracle Cerner EHR system.
“The Oracle Cerner electronic health record…
The UK vice president and general manager of Oracle Cerner, Distie Profit, has said that the NHS should never treat the implementation of electronic patient records (EPRs) as IT projects and instead should view…
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By Hannah Nelson April 24, 2023 – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has stopped all further Oracle Cerner EHR implementations as it conducts a “reset” of its EHR modernization (EHRM) project.
VA officials said that…
Top News The VA pauses its Oracle Cerner implementation indefinitely until issues at its live sites are resolved. It also says “everything is on the table” as it negotiates the scheduled five-year extension of…
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