What You Should Know:
- A Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee has filed a lawsuit against the agency, alleging its new Oracle-Cerner EHR system discriminates against employees and veterans with disabilities, Federal News Network reports.
- The lawsuit claims the Oracle-Cerner EHR system is incompatible with assistive technologies like screen readers used by visually impaired individuals.
Legal Basis of the Lawsuit
The lawsuit argues that the VA violated Section
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Deaconess Health System Delivers 24/7 Virtual Urgent Care Across 50 States via KeyCare
- Deaconess Health System, a healthcare provider serving over 1.5 million patients in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, announced a collaboration with KeyCare. This partnership brings 24/7 virtual urgent care to Deaconess patients across all 50 states through MyChart, the health system's patient portal.
- The partnership empowers Deaconess patients to receive high-quality urgent care for a variety of non-emergency conditions from the comfort of their homes, or wherever they may be. This
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Ascension Restores EHR Access Florida, Alabama, Austin Markets After Cyberattack
What You Should Know:
- Ascension announced it has restored EHR access in Florida, Alabama, and Austin markets affected by a recent cyberattack.
- Ascension anticipates completing EHR access across its entire network by June 14th. This will allow clinicians to access patient records seamlessly, mirroring the pre-attack workflow.
- Ascension Rx retail, home delivery, and specialty pharmacy sites are now fully operational. Healthcare providers can now transmit prescriptions
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SPRY Launches AI-Integrated EMR for Rehab Therapy
What You Should Know:
- SPRY Therapeutics (“SPRY”), creator of rehab therapy’s first fully integrated, AI-powered EMR, today announced the introduction of SPRY Ally, a suite of AI-powered tools for rehab therapy.
- The tools leverage AI’s ability to continually learn as it dramatically improves the efficiency and accuracy of clinical
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Pager Partners with AXA Partners Mexico to Expedite Care Navigation
What You Should Know:
- Pager, Inc., a leading digital healthcare enablement and care advocacy company serving 28 million members in the United States and Latin America, and AXA Partners Mexico (APM) today announced a strategic partnership that provides new capabilities to improve the experience of APM’s health assistance programs.
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Nanopath Awarded $4M Grant to Support Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnostics for Women’s Health
What You Should Know:
- Nanopath Inc., a point-of-care diagnostics company enabling high-quality molecular testing in minutes, announced today that it was awarded $4 million in federal funding.
- The company was awarded a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a $1 million grant from the National Science
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athenahealth Unveils athenaOne for Women’s Health & Urgent Care
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, a leading provider of healthcare software, unveils athenaOne for Women's Health and athenaOne for Urgent Care.
- The new specialty solutions address the specific needs of Women’s Health and urgent care, empowering them to deliver exceptional patient care.
Eliminating Tradeoffs: Comprehensive Features with Specialty Focus
Historically, practices faced a choice: a comprehensive EHR with generic features or a limited, specialty-specific
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Truveta Expands EHR Data Access with Complex Concepts & Millions of Images
What You Should Know:
- Today Truveta announced the availability of expanded concepts from clinical notes -- including family history, medication details reported to providers, and complex concepts for a wide range of therapeutic areas from cardiology to rare disease and more – and millions of de-identified medical images for scientifically rigorous
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Truveta Unveils Largest Mother-Child EHR Dataset for Pregnancy and Pediatric Research
What You Should Know:
- Truveta, a data company dedicated to "Saving Lives with Data," announced today the launch of the most comprehensive mother-child electronic health record (EHR) dataset ever assembled.
- Truveta's dataset surpasses traditional claims-based datasets, which often lack clinical details and have reporting delays. By offering comprehensive, longitudinal EHR data, Truveta empowers researchers to conduct more rigorous and impactful studies, ultimately improving
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Particle Health Addresses Integration to Epic Data Despite Dispute
What You Should Know:
- Particle Health, a healthcare data platform company, is addressing concerns about a reported data access disruption with electronic health record (EHR) giant Epic.
- Particle Health emphasizes that the vast majority of its customers continue to receive data from Epic uninterrupted, despite recent announcements suggesting otherwise.
The Dispute and Its Impact
However, Particle Health acknowledges a dispute with Epic that began in March 2024. While
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