Milwaukee Health Services & Former EHR Vendor Sue Over Rights To Patient Records

After community health center Milwaukee Health Services (MHS) allowed a contract with its electronic health record (EHR) vendor to end before the transition to a new EHR vendor was completed, the former vendor refused to provide MHS with the patient record data unless MHS contracted for another year of access to the records. MHS had contracted for the past 14 years with the former vendor, Business Computer Applications (BCA) to provide a patient record system, and in its most recent contract in 2008 called for upgrading to BCA's full EHR Pearl. However, three years after the implementation MHS decided . . .