Banner Health Obtains EMR, EPM Licenses

Banner Health (Phoenix, Ariz.) has purchased licenses for EMR and enterprise practice management software from Horsham, Pa.-based NextGen Healthcare Information Systems.

Through the agreement, the health system aims to strengthen physician infrastructure and recruit more physicians within the health system while continued with its long-term ambulatory physician strategy, it says.

Banner Health has 20 hospitals in seven western states, and provides hospital care, home care, hospice care, long-term care, nursing registries, surgery centers, laboratories and rehabilitation services.