Intermountain Healthcare boosts digital care for Utah patients with launch of new, more centralized ‘virtual… Officials say new military health records plan on track, already showing results Military officials are pleased with the progress of MHS Genesis, comparing the roll out of the Cerner system more favorably to similar implementations last year at three of Cerner’s private-sector customers.

Weekly News Recap Intermountain Healthcare launches a virtual hospital that brings its 35 telemedicine programs… The biggest booths at HIMSS18 in terms of square footage are: IBM (15,400) Cerner (14,200) Epic (10,610) Change Healthcare (9,000) Skipping a zillion more, HIStalk (100) Things I’ll miss at HIMSS18: MedData’s amazing scones, since Sands Expo Center doesn’t allow baking on the show floor Bistro HIMSS, the moderately-priced, decent-quality buffet where we’ve held our CMIO lunches, since they don’t run it in Las Vegas The chance to breathe air not infused with cigarette smoke HIStalkapalooza Also note that Daylight Saving Time (I just realized that the first two words should be hyphenated since they form a compound adjective) starts the Sunday morning after the conference.

Top News For those living on other healthcare IT planets who aren’t already aware, HIMSS18… Tift Regional Medical Center (GA) will go live on Cerner on July 1, 2018. Announcements and Implementations A new KLAS report on plug-and-play EHR data-sharing capabilities concludes that it’s: (a) automatic for Athenahealth and Epic customers; (b) nearly so for EClinicalWorks; (c) limited for Cerner because of poor CommonWell adoption, at least until the CommonWell-Carequality connection is in place; (d) uncommon for GE Healthcare and Greenway Health users; and (e) not offered by Allscripts, Meditech, and NextGen. Epic and Athenahealth offer the highest likelihood of being able to connect to important partners, while Epic and Cerner offer the best doctor usability of the retrieved patient records. This is even true if you are using Cerner, who has been one of the most valiant and prominent CommonWell promoters.

I’m up before the day has even dawned thanks to a stuffy hotel room and… “Now Epic and Cerner are the ‘big guys.

  HIMSS18 Day 1 is on the books. I’m not really sure if it’s Day… Newsy Items Cerner and Salesforce will collaborate to integrate to offer their combined population health management and CRM solutions, respectively. Cerner and Epic finally agree on something.

Newsy Items Analytics vendor Inovalon will acquire competitor Ability Network for $1.2 billion, doubling the…  Cerner used the outside walls of their booth for promotional posters a la Epic, but instead of KLAS excerpts, Cerner instead highlighted customer successes. Cerner also took off the gloves inside its booth, deviating from never referring to Epic by name (“our primary competitor”) to even copying Epic’s logo. I didn’t mention that they’re planning to replace it (and Allscripts Sunrise and whatever they use for ambulatory) with what I assume will be Epic or Cerner.

The second full day of HIMSS dawned with overcast skies and a slight chill in… LRS provides document output management services for Cerner, Epic, GE, and Siemens.

Newsy Items DoD doctors and software technicians tell Politico that the Cerner rollout at four…Newsy Items DoD doctors and software technicians tell Politico that the Cerner rollout at four pilot sites is plagued with system bugs, inadequately trained users, and login times of up to 10 minutes. Users complain that workflows are more cumbersome than with the system Cerner replaced. Cerner CFO Marc Naughton during the HIMSS investor briefing, and on International Women’s Day, no less: ‘Instead of teacup rides and ‘It's A Small World’ soundtrack at Disney, Vegas has crack and hookers.