Who is this for? Health care providers who plan to acquire electronic health record (EHR) systems should benefit from learning about the contract terms discussed in this document. When this document uses the term “you” it means purchasers and users of EHR systems who are or may become legally bound by EHR...

Cerner and Epic combined acquired slightly more than 75 percent of new electronic health record contracts at large (more than 200 beds) acute-care hospitals last year, according to a report by KLAS. According to the report, more than 400 large hospitals do not currently have an EHR system, providing...

“Most hospitals don’t know all the data breaches they have,” says Mac McMillan, current chair of the privacy and security task force at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He had very recently worked with a large hospital system that inadvertently provided a patient online access to another...

More than one in six providers currently using an electronic health record system has plans to change vendors within the next year. Many of these providers are physician practices upgrading to meet meaningful use requirements or replacing a poorly-functioning system, but hospitals have increasingly been switching to new vendors...