Cerner
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
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Why Lawmakers Are Trying to Nix VA’s $50B+ Dollar Oracle Cerner EHR Rollout
Two Congresspeople recently introduced a bill seeking to terminate the VA’s Oracle Cerner EHR rollout. The legislation said that the project is too flawed and costly to carry on — the lawmakers called for VA facilities to revert back to the department’s internally developed EHR.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Federal Court Says Cerner May be on the Hook in Brain Damage Lawsuit
Medical software company Cerner must head to trial for a jury to decide whether its software contained design defects that caused brain damage to a 25-year-old who was undergoing surgery to remove his gallbladder.
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Hot off its Cerner acquisition, Oracle is developing a national health records database
Two days after it completed its $28.4 billion acquisition of Cerner, Oracle announced plans to build a national, anonymized health information management system.
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To improve EMR satisfaction, work on speed and reliability first
Providers would be wise to improve their EMR system response time and reliability, as these two measures critically influence clinician satisfaction. These improvements are acutely needed amid healthcare’s workforce shortage — burnout and EMR dissatisfaction are key factors associated with clinicians’ likelihood to resign.
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New EMR report shows Cerner continuing to lose market share in the U.S. despite what Feinberg said
The 2022 U.S. Hospital Market Share report from KLAS states that other than government contracts, “no net-new large health systems have selected Cerner since 2013” though the EMR vendor scored big among small hospitals with less than 200 beds. MEDITECH had major wins among small and large hospitals.
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Epic beats competition in new KLAS report ranking Top IT companies for healthcare
Healthcare IT research company KLAS published its 2022 annual Best in KLAS report where it ranked IT companies in healthcare in a variety of categories. Epic scored the highest in the most categories.
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Epic CEO in exclusive sit-down at ViVE: We are now interoperable with the world
In a sit-down interview after my onstage fireside chat with rival Cerner CEO David Feinberg at ViVE, Epic CEO Judith Faulkner aimed to set the record straight about Epic’s capabilities in AI, interoperability as well as describe what developments she is excited about in healthcare.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Oracle to buy Cerner for $28.3B
The companies struck an all-cash deal on Monday for $95-per share. Oracle plans to add a voice interface to Cerner’s electronic health record system.
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Cerner stock rises on potential $30B sale to Oracle
Oracle is reportedly in talks to buy Cerner for $30 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. If it closes, it would be the largest health tech deal this year.
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Why one hospital decided to build its own EHR
A New Jersey bucked the norm of buying the off-the-shelf EHR software from the large electronic health records vendors like Epic and Cerner and built something more aligned with what was needed.
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Study: Apps integrating with EHRs grew 20% during 2020
Though the total number of unique apps that integrate with major EHRs, like Epic and Cerner, increased from 600 at the end of 2019 to 734 in December 2020, growth in the number of apps that support the FHIR data exchange standard was stagnant.
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Cerner joins $135M funding round for Elligo Health Research
Elligo Health Research uses EHR data, technology and services to expand patient access to clinical trials. It will use the new funds to further invest in its technology platform and purchase research practice management company ClinEdge.
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Dr. David Feinberg’s next act: CEO of Cerner
Feinberg comes to Cerner from Google Health, which he has led since 2019. The move comes amid news reports that Google plans to dismantle its health division, though the company denies any such plans.