Becker's Hospital Review

37 CIO / HEALTH IT Epic, Cerner lead in EHR interoperability, KLAS finds By Jackie Drees M ore than 60 percent of Epic EHR customers reported being able to achieve deep interoperability in 2020, according to a KLAS Research report. For its 2020 EHR Interoperability report, KLAS updated its research from 2017 to more closely analyze how healthcare organizations perceive their vendor's efforts to support in- teroperability, including "deep interoperabil- ity," which the research organizations consid- ers the last stage. KLAS defines deep interoperability as when providers have consistent access to outside data, can easily locate patient records, can view outside data within their EHR workflow and experience positive patient care impacts. Here's the percent of customers achieving deep interoperability in 2017 compared to 2020, based on a 100-point scale. • Epic: Increased from 13 percent to 63 percent • Cerner: Increased from 7 percent to 28 percent • NextGen Healthcare: Increased from 13 percent to 19 percent • Allscripts Sunrise: Stayed the same at 18 percent • eClinicalWorks: Increased from 3 per- cent to 14 percent • Athenahealth: Decreased from 23 per- cent to 17 percent • Greenway Health: Decreased from 20 percent to 10 percent • Meditech: Decreased from 11 percent to 10 percent • Allscripts TouchWorks: Decreased from 5 percent to zero percent n 67,000 patient records exposed in California hospital ransomware attack: 5 details By Laura Dyrda A n October ransomware attack at Sonoma Valley Hospital in California exposed tens of thousands of patient records. The hospital began notifying its patients in December. Five details: 1. Hackers infiltrated the hospital's IT systems, which were shut down to con- tain the damage. Sonoma Valley partnered with an outside IT company and forensic experts to restore the IT systems. 2. The hospital did not pay the ransom, according to a Dec. 10 notice on the hospital's website. A hospital investigation found that some patient information had been compromised, including health claims sent electronically to insurers. 3. Exposed information included patient names, birth dates, addresses and di- agnosis and procedure codes. The breach also exposed some imaging records of patients whose services resulted in a grievance, appeal or quality review. 4. The information of about 67,000 patients, who had received services dat- ing to 2009, had information exposed in the attack, according to the Sonoma Index-Tribune. 5. There is no evidence any exposed patient information has been misused, the hospital said. n Cerner signs 4 rural hospitals for cloud- based EHR By Jackie Drees F our rural hospitals in South Dakota, New Mexico, Louisiana and Nebraska have signed on to implement Cerner's cloud-based CommunityWorks EHR system, according to a Dec. 23 news release. Cerner launched CommunityWorks in July as a new cloud-based EHR offer- ing for rural and critical access hospitals; the platform aims to help hospitals speed up implementations and reduce costs and is based on its Millennium EHR offering. Here are the four hospitals that signed on to deploy CommunityWorks: 1. Huron (S.D.) Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital, will use the Cerner system across multiple facilities including its women's health clinic and physicians' clinic. 2. Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services in McKinley County, N.M., will use Cerner's nursing mobility platform CareAware to help improve care collaboration between clinicians. RMCH is a 69-bed community hospital. 3. James Parish Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Lutcher, La., will use the Cerner EHR to coordinate patient care on a single platform. 4. Syracuse (Neb.) Area Health, a 10-bed critical access hospital, will move to Cerner throughout its hospital that opened in November 2018. SAH also comprises two rural health clinics and an orthopedic clinic. n

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