Morning Headlines 10/2/15

Alexander to Administration: 5 Reasons to Take More Time Before Making Final the Stage 3 Rule for the Electronic Health Records Program

Senator Lamar Alexander (R- TN), chairman of the Senate’s HELP Committee, continues with his efforts to delay the implementation of MU3 by publishing a list of five key reasons for the proposed delay, adding “there is broad and bipartisan interest in seeing the administration take its time to get this done right.”

Profit Heaven: UNC Hospitals quadruple operating income in 2015

UNC Hospitals (NC) reports an operating income of $115 million, quadrupling its 2014 figure. The system credits added beds and its Epic implementation for the financial turnaround.

Medical software boom: eClinicalWorks buys third Westboro building for $21.1M

Massachusetts-based practice management vendor eClinicalWorks buys a 192,000 square-foot office building as it makes plans to add 1,000 employees to its workforce.