Morning Headlines 1/2/14

White Sulphur Springs hospital says company never installed health records system

Mountainview Medical Center (MT) is suing NextGen Healthcare Information Systems for failing to install a certified EHR by a contractually agreed upon install date of June 1, 2013. When the date passed, the NextGen and Mountainview agreed to a new delivery date of October 1 but, according to the lawsuit, the extra time did not resolve the underlying issues and no system was ever installed.

3 hospitals start new year at Stage 7

Hilo Medical Center (HI), Round Rock Hospital (TX), and White Health System (TX) are all named to the HIMSS stage 7 list. Round Rock and White Health’s ambulatory clinics received stage 7 ambulatory designation as well. Both run Epic across their networks, while Hilo is a Meditech 6 site.

Stocks of KC firms large, small did well in 2013

Cerner is profiled by the Kansas City Star newspaper in a year-end review of the city’s top performing businesses. Cerner shares grew 43 percent in 2013.

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